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CVE-2002-0163 — HIGH severity vulnerability (Heap-based buffer overflow in Squid before 2.4 STABLE4, and)

Heap-based buffer overflow in Squid before 2.4 STABLE4, and Squid 2.5 and 2.6 until March 12, 2002 distributions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via compressed DNS responses.

CVE IDCVE-2002-0163
SeverityHIGH
CVSS score7.5
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2002-03-26
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in Squid before 2.4 STABLE4, and Squid 2.5 and 2.6 until March 12, 2002 distributions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via compressed DNS responses.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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