CVE-2007-6239

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    CVE-2007-6239

    Published: 4 Dec 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: 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, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-38.xml, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:002, http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2007_2.txt, http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/changesets/11780.patch, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-565-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4066, http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/changesets/11780.patch, http://secunia.com/advisories/27910, http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1482, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1130.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26687, http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2007_2.txt, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=410181, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201209, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/232881, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019036, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10915, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00497.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00507.html

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High