CVE-2011-3205

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 27.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-09-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the gopherToHTML function in gopher.cc in the Gopher reply parser in Squid 3.0 before 3.0.STABLE26, 3.1 before 3.1.15, and 3.2 before 3.2.0.11 allows remote Gopher servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and daemon restart) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long line in a response. NOTE: This issue exists because of a CVE-2005-0094 regression.

Affected products

Squid: 3.0.stable1, 3.0.stable2, 3.0.stable3, 3.0.stable4, 3.0.stable5, 3.0.stable6 (+65)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065534.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-09/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-09/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/29/2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/30/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/30/8
http://secunia.com/advisories/45805
http://secunia.com/advisories/45906
http://secunia.com/advisories/45920
http://secunia.com/advisories/45965

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