cve-2009-2855
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-08-18 20:41
Modified
2024-08-07 06:07
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
68.71%
(0.9851)
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
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