CVE-2004-0918

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The asn_parse_header function (asn1.c) in the SNMP module for Squid Web Proxy Cache before 2.4.STABLE7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server restart) via certain SNMP packets with negative length fields that trigger a memory allocation error.

Affected products

gentoo Linux: all versions
Openpkg: 2.1, 2.2, current
RedHat Fedora Core: core_2.0
Squid: 2.0_patch2, 2.1_patch2, 2.3_.stable4, 2.3_.stable5, 2.4, 2.4_.stable2 (+10)
Trustix Secure Linux: 1.5, 2.0, 2.1
Ubuntu Linux: 4.1

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000923
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109913064629327&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/30914
http://secunia.com/advisories/30967
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-15.xml
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=152&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=false
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-591.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11385
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2004_3.txt

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