CVE-2005-0096

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in the NTLM fakeauth_auth helper for Squid 2.5.STABLE7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).

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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-25.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012818
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/12324
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE7-fakeauth_auth
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0003/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10233
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000923

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