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CVE-2002-0163

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-03-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Squid before 2.4 STABLE4, and Squid 2.5 and 2.6 until March 12, 2002 distributions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via compressed DNS responses.

Affected products

• Squid: through 2.4_9

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101716495023226&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-051.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8628.php
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-027.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4363
• http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2002_2.txt
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101716495023226&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-051.html

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