{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2009-06-28T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "squid: DoS (100% CPU use) while processing certain external ACL helper HTTP headers",
    "id" : "518182",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518182"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "2.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The strListGetItem function in src/HttpHeaderTools.c in Squid 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted auth header with certain comma delimiters that trigger an infinite loop of calls to the strcspn function." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of the squid packages, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2010-03-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2010:0221",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "squid-7:2.6.STABLE21-6.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2855\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2855" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2009-2855",
  "csaw" : false
}