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CVE-2013-4115

squid: buffer overflow when processing overly long DNS names (SQUID-2013:2)

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · July 10, 2013

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A buffer overflow flaw was found in Squid's DNS lookup module. A remote attacker able to send HTTP requests to the Squid proxy could use this flaw to crash Squid.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 3.3
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified