CVE-2007-6239

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 26.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The "cache update reply processing" functionality in Squid 2.x before 2.6.STABLE17 and Squid 3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors related to HTTP headers and an Array memory leak during requests for cached objects.

Affected products

Squid Web Proxy Cache: 2.0_patch2, 2.1_patch2, 2.3.stable4, 2.3.stable5, 2.4_stable2, 2.4_stable4 (+32)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201209
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27910
http://secunia.com/advisories/28091
http://secunia.com/advisories/28109
http://secunia.com/advisories/28350
http://secunia.com/advisories/28381
http://secunia.com/advisories/28403
http://secunia.com/advisories/28412
http://secunia.com/advisories/28814
http://secunia.com/advisories/34467
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-05.xml

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