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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-0718 json

Squid 2.5.STABLE7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) by aborting the connection during a…

published 2005-03-12 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0719

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.5%
EPSS 12.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Squid 2.5.STABLE7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) by aborting the connection during a (1) PUT or (2) POST request, which causes Squid to access previously freed memory.

Patch / fix

  • squid Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.5.8

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0718

  • squid RHEL 3 7:2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.13
  • squid RHEL 4 7:2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:415

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-0718 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 squid 2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.13 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 squid 2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.13 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 squid 2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 squid 2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:415
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:489
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 squid 2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.13 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 squid 2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 squid 2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.13 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 squid 2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:415
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:489

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

12.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.