CVE-2005-0446

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 41.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Squid 2.5.STABLE8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain DNS responses regarding (1) Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) in fqdncache.c or (2) IP addresses in ipcache.c, which trigger an assertion failure.

Affected products

Squid: 2.0.patch1, 2.0.patch2, 2.0.pre1, 2.0.release, 2.0_patch2, 2.1.patch1 (+53)

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000931
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110901183320453&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14271
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-688
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-25.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:047
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-173.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-201.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12551
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE8-dns_assert
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/squid-2.5.STABLE8-dns_assert.patch

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