4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.136 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.7%
Squid security advisory 2010:1 reports:
Due to incorrect data validation Squid is vulnerable to a denial
of service attack when processing specially crafted DNS packets.
This problem allows any trusted client or external server who can
determine the squid receiving port to perform a short-term denial
of service attack on the Squid service.