CVE-2009-2855
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-08-18 20:41
Modified
2024-08-07 06:07
Severity ?
Summary
The strListGetItem function in src/HttpHeaderTools.c in Squid 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted auth header with certain comma delimiters that trigger an infinite loop of calls to the strcspn function.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534982
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=31%3Bfilename=diff%3Batt=1%3Bbug=534982
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/20/10
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/03/3
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/6
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36091
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022757
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2541
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2704Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518182
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52610
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10592
Impacted products
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