CVE-2012-5643
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
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.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2.7.STABLE9-2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2.7.STABLE9-2 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 2.7.STABLE9-2 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 2.7.STABLE9-2 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 2.7.STABLE9-2 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| squid-cache | squid | 2.0 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 2.1 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 2.2 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 2.3 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 2.4 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 2.5 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 2.6 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 2.7 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable1 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable2 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable3 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable4 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable5 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable6 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable7 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable8 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable9 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable10 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable11 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable12 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable13 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable14 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable15 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable16 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable17 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable18 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable19 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable20 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable21 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable22 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable23 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable24 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.0.stable25 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.1 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.2 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.3 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.4 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.5 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.6 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.7 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.8 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.9 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.10 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.11 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.12 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.13 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.14 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.15 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.16 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.17 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.0.18 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.1 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.2 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.10 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.11 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.12 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.13 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.14 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.15 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.16 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.17 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.18 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.19 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.20 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.1.21 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.1 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.2 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.3 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.4 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.5 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.6 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.7 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.8 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.9 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.10 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.11 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.12 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.13 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.14 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.15 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.16 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.17 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.18 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.0.19 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.1 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.2 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.2.3 | |
| squid-cache | squid | 3.3.0.1 | |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00052.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00075.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00032.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/17/4
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0505.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52024
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54839
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1713-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2631
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:129
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027890
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2012_1.txt
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/squid-3.1-10479.patch
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.2/changesets/squid-3.2-11714.patch
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447596
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887962
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0368
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5643
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.