VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-1839

high
Published 2013-09-30 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.1
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.2
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.3
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.4
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.5
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.6
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.7
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.8
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.9
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.10
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.11
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.12
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.13
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.14
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.15
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.16
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.17
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.18
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.19
squid-cachesquid3.2.1
squid-cachesquid3.2.2
squid-cachesquid3.2.3
squid-cachesquid3.2.4
squid-cachesquid3.2.5
squid-cachesquid3.2.6
squid-cachesquid3.2.7
squid-cachesquid3.2.8
squid-cachesquid3.3.0
squid-cachesquid3.3.0.2
squid-cachesquid3.3.0.3
squid-cachesquid3.3.1
squid-cachesquid3.3.2

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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