CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2005-0211
HIGHEPSS 97th pctl7.5
CVSS v2
Description
Buffer overflow in wccp.c in Squid 2.5 before 2.5.STABLE7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long WCCP packet, which is processed by a recvfrom function call that uses an incorrect length parameter.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
22.15%probability of exploitation in 30 days
97thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780531820947&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/14076
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1013045
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-667
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/886006
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:034
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_06_squid.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/13319
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-060.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-061.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12432
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE7-wccp_buffer_overflow
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/squid-2.5.STABLE7-wccp_buffer_overflow.patch
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9573
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