GSD-2009-2855

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19
Details
The 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.
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CVE-2009-2855
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