CVE-2005-0718

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Squid 2.5.STABLE7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) by aborting the connection during a (1) PUT or (2) POST request, which causes Squid to access previously freed memory.

Affected products

Squid: 2.0.patch1, 2.0.patch2, 2.0.pre1, 2.0.release, 2.0_patch2, 2.1.patch1 (+52)

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000931
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
http://secunia.com/advisories/12508
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-415.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-489.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13166
http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1224
http://www1.uk.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE7-post
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19919
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11562
https://usn.ubuntu.com/111-1/
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000931

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