Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 26, 2002· Updated Apr 16, 2026
CVE-2002-0163
CVE-2002-0163
Description
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.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
8- ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-017.1.txtnvd
- ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:19.squid.ascnvd
- marc.infonvd
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-051.htmlnvd
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/8628.phpnvd
- www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-027.phpnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/4363nvd
- www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2002_2.txtnvd
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