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CVE-2011-3205
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,…
Medium6.8EPSS 27.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 18 days later
· 18 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 27.5% · top 1.9% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (25)
- RHSA-2011:1293 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 46029 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 45906 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-11854 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1996 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2011:1019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1025981 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/changesets/squid-3.0-9193.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/squid-3.1-10363.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.HEAD/changesets/12710.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 45965 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 45805 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-2304 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110830 Re: CVE-request(?): squid: buffer overflow in Gopher reply parser (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2011_3.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2011:1018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110829 CVE-request(?): squid: buffer overflow in Gopher reply parser (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734583 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110830 Re: CVE-request(?): squid: buffer overflow in Gopher reply parser (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.2/changesets/squid-3.2-11294.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:2089 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 49356 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 74847 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 45920 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2011:150 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_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)
- 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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