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Squid Cache Update Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA27910
Release Date: 2007-12-04
Last Update: 2008-04-09
Popularity: 10,221 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Squid 2.x

Binary Analysis: BA253 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Squid, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the processing of cache update replies and can be exploited to crash an affected server.

The vulnerability is reported in Squid 2.x versions prior to 2.6.STABLE18.

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