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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1612

Original release date:04/01/2008
Last revised:04/02/2009
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The arrayShrink function (lib/Array.c) in Squid 2.6.STABLE17 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (process exit) via unknown vectors that cause an array to shrink to 0 entries, which triggers an assert error. NOTE: this issue is due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-6239.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2007_2.txt
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/changesets/11882.patch
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080401 CVE id request: squid
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:134
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1646
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200903-38
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34467
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32109
External Source: MLIST
Name: [squid-announce[ 20080322 Advisory Squid-2007:2 updated
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-2740
External Source: XF
Name: squid-arrayshrink-dos(41586)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-601-1
External Source: BID
Name: 28693
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0214
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 30032
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29813
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27477
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:011

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