CVE-2002-0068: Red Hat Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 9.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Squid 2.4 STABLE3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump) and possibly execute arbitrary code with an ftp:// URL with a larger number of special characters, which exceed the buffer when Squid URL-escapes the characters.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 6.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only
• Squid Squid: up to and including 2.4_stable_3

Published 2002-03-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.