National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0478

Overview

Squid 2.7 to 2.7.STABLE5, 3.0 to 3.0.STABLE12, and 3.1 to 3.1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an HTTP request with an invalid version number, which triggers a reachable assertion in (1) HttpMsg.c and (2) HttpStatusLine.c.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (02/09/2009)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of Squid as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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External Source: BID

Name: 33604

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33604

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484246

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484246

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.7/changesets/12432.patch

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.7/changesets/12432.patch

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2009_1.txt

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2009_1.txt

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021684

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021684

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090204 Squid Proxy Cache Denial of Service in request handling

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/500653/100/0/threaded

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 8021

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8021

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2009:034

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:034

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200903-38

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-38.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34467

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34467

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33731

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33731

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:005

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html