CVE-2012-5643 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-5643

Multiple memory leaks in tools/cachemgr.cc in cachemgr.cgi in Squid 2.x...

Vulnerability Description

Multiple memory leaks in tools/cachemgr.cc in cachemgr.cgi in Squid 2.x and 3.x before 3.1.22, 3.2.x before 3.2.4, and 3.3.x before 3.3.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via (1) invalid Content-Length headers, (2) long POST requests, or (3) crafted authentication credentials.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

squid
Vulnerable Versions:
2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.0, 3.0.stable1, 3.0.stable2, 3.0.stable3, 3.0.stable4, 3.0.stable5, 3.0.stable6, 3.0.stable7, 3.0.stable8, 3.0.stable9, 3.0.stable10, 3.0.stable11, 3.0.stable12, 3.0.stable13, 3.0.stable14, 3.0.stable15, 3.0.stable16, 3.0.stable17, 3.0.stable18, 3.0.stable19, 3.0.stable20, 3.0.stable21, 3.0.stable22, 3.0.stable23, 3.0.stable24, 3.0.stable25, 3.1, 3.1.0.1, 3.1.0.2, 3.1.0.3, 3.1.0.4, 3.1.0.5, 3.1.0.6, 3.1.0.7, 3.1.0.8, 3.1.0.9, 3.1.0.10, 3.1.0.11, 3.1.0.12, 3.1.0.13, 3.1.0.14, 3.1.0.15, 3.1.0.16, 3.1.0.17, 3.1.0.18, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.10, 3.1.11, 3.1.12, 3.1.13, 3.1.14, 3.1.15, 3.1.16, 3.1.17, 3.1.18, 3.1.19, 3.1.20, 3.1.21, 3.2.0.1, 3.2.0.2, 3.2.0.3, 3.2.0.4, 3.2.0.5, 3.2.0.6, 3.2.0.7, 3.2.0.8, 3.2.0.9, 3.2.0.10, 3.2.0.11, 3.2.0.12, 3.2.0.13, 3.2.0.14, 3.2.0.15, 3.2.0.16, 3.2.0.17, 3.2.0.18, 3.2.0.19, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.3.0.1

Timeline

Official Publish: December 20th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.