Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-6239

Title: Squid Squid Web Proxy Cache Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-6239.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Dec 04, 2007
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
26.86%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-6239: 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.

Impacted Vendors

N
national_science_foundation 1
S
squid 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201209 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html 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.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1482 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/232881 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:002 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1130.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26687 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019036 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 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=410181 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 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201209 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html 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.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1482 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/232881 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:002 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1130.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26687 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019036 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 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=410181 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
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-6239 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.