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CVE-2008-1612

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-04-01 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The arrayShrink function (lib/Array.c) in Squid 2.6.STABLE17 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (process exit) via unknown vectors that cause an array to shrink to 0 entries, which triggers an assert error. NOTE: this issue is due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-6239.

Affected products

• Squid: 2.6.stable17

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
• http://marc.info/?l=squid-announce&m=120614453813157&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27477
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29813
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30032
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32109
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34467
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-38.xml
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1646
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:134
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/01/5
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0214.html

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