CVE-2005-0211

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 22.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in wccp.c in Squid 2.5 before 2.5.STABLE7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long WCCP packet, which is processed by a recvfrom function call that uses an incorrect length parameter.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 3.0
Squid: 2.5.stable1, 2.5.stable2, 2.5.stable3, 2.5.stable4, 2.5.stable5, 2.5.stable6

References

http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780531820947&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14076
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013045
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-667
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/886006
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:034
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_06_squid.html
http://www.osvdb.org/13319
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/12432

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