CVE-2006-0046

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

squid_redirect script in adzapper before 2006-01-29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a URL with a large number of trailing / (forward slashes), which might produce inefficient regular expressions.

Affected products

Cameron Simpson Adzapper: 2006-01-01, 2006-01-05, 2006-01-07, 2006-01-14, 2006-01-15, 2006-01-23 (+4)

References

http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/cvslog.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/squid_redirect.diff?bug=350308%3Bmsg=5%3Batt=1
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350308
http://secunia.com/advisories/18771
http://secunia.com/advisories/18777
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-966
http://www.osvdb.org/22900
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16558
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0491
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24640
http://adzapper.sourceforge.net/cvslog.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/squid_redirect.diff?bug=350308%3Bmsg=5%3Batt=1

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