CVE-2009-2855

NameCVE-2009-2855
DescriptionThe strListGetItem function in src/HttpHeaderTools.c in Squid 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted auth header with certain comma delimiters that trigger an infinite loop of calls to the strcspn function.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1991-1
Debian Bugs534982

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
squid (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye4.13-10+deb11u3fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)5.7-2+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie6.12-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
squidsourceetch2.6.5-6etch5DSA-1991-1
squidsourcelenny2.7.STABLE3-4.1lenny1DSA-1991-1
squidsource(unstable)2.7.STABLE7-1low534982
squid3sourceetch3.0.PRE5-5+etch2DSA-1991-1
squid3sourcelenny3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny3DSA-1991-1
squid3source(unstable)3.0.STABLE19-1

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