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CVE-2005-0446
Squid 2.5.STABLE8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain DNS responses regarding (1) Fully…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 41.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Squid 2.5.STABLE8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain DNS responses regarding (1) Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) in fqdncache.c or (2) IP addresses in ipcache.c, which trigger an assertion failure.
Timeline
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
ID reserved
By mitre
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 41.1% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
14
- 20050221 [USN-84-1] Squid vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- GLSA-200502-25 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 14271 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- squid-xstrndup-dos(19332) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/squid-2.5.STABLE8-dns_assert.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:201 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 12551 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE8-dns_assert (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FLSA-2006:152809 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-688 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:173 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11264 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- CLA-2005:931 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- MDKSA-2005:047 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-0447 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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