CVE-2007-6239
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 26.7%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 26.7% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-6207)
- Published
- December 4, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-6207 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- squid / squid web proxy cache
- squid / squid web proxy cache
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- squid / squid web proxy cache
References
- 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(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28091(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28109(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28350(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28381(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28403(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28412(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28814(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34467(Vendor Advisory)
- 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(Patch)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/232881(US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:002
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1130.html(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26687(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019036
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2007_2.txt(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/changesets/11780.patch(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-565-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4066(Vendor Advisory)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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