CVE-2005-0446: Squid

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 41.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Squid 2.5.STABLE8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain DNS responses regarding (1) Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) in fqdncache.c or (2) IP addresses in ipcache.c, which trigger an assertion failure.

Affected products

• Squid Squid: version 2.0.patch1 only; version 2.0.patch2 only; version 2.0.pre1 only; version 2.0.release only; version 2.0_patch2 only; version 2.1.patch1 only; …

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.