CVE-2005-2796: Squid

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The sslConnectTimeout function in ssl.c for Squid 2.5.STABLE10 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via certain crafted requests.

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 2005-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.