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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-1839: Vulnerability in squid < 3.2.9 allow remote denial of service

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-1839: Vulnerability in squid < 3.2.9 allow remote denial of service

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/30/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

The strHdrAcptLangGetItem function in errorpage.cc in Squid 3.2.x before 3.2.9 and 3.3.x before 3.3.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a "," character in an Accept-Language header.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-squid

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