Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2005-190 |
Date Published: | 26 Oct 2009 |
Severity: | Medium |
Last Updated: | Sunday 11 February, 2018 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2005-0095 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | Squid is a full featured, open source web proxy caching server. It supports the proxying of a variety of protocols including FTP, Gopher, and HTTP. It also supports the distribution of cached objects through the Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP). A vulnerability exists in the way the Squid web proxy/cache parses a Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) message. A specially crafted WCCP I_SEE_YOU message can trigger a memory access exception. This flaw can be exploited to terminate the vulnerable product, creating a denial of service condition. In most cases, upon receiving an attack, a Squid proxy will continue without change to its functionality since the invalid web cache field will not trigger a memory read exception. However, in certain attack cases, the process may terminate on a read access error, causing a denial of service. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Proxy Server Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Squid WCCP message parsing denial of service