CVE-2009-2855 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534982 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=31;filename=diff;att=1;bug=534982 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/20/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/03/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/6 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36091 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022757 http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2541 http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2704 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518182 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52610 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10592