CVE-2005-0094

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-01-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the gopherToHTML function in the Gopher reply parser for Squid 2.5.STABLE7 and earlier allows remote malicious Gopher servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted responses.

Affected products

Squid: 2.0_patch2, 2.1_patch2, 2.3_.stable4, 2.3_.stable5, 2.3_stable5, 2.4 (+21)

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000923
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
http://secunia.com/advisories/13825
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-25.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-651
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:014
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_06_squid.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-060.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-061.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12276
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2005_1.txt
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/squid-2.5.STABLE7-gopher_html_parsing.patch

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