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CVE-2008-1612

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1612 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Squid 2.6.STABLE17, specifically within the arrayShrink function. An attacker can trigger a process exit by causing an array to shrink to zero entries, leading to an assert error. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no known exploit intelligence, active exploitation, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.stable17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.6.stable17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0218 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1Fixed in: squid-7:2.4.STABLE7-1.21as.12
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: squid-7:2.5.STABLE3-9.3E
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: squid-7:2.5.STABLE14-1.4E.el4_6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: squid-7:2.6.STABLE6-5.el5_1.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-1612Moderate

squid: regression in SQUID-2007:2 / CVE-2007-6239

Mar 22, 2008

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/27477
secunia.com / advisories/29813
secunia.com / advisories/30032
secunia.com / advisories/32109
secunia.com / advisories/34467
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200903-38.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/41586
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11376
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00560.html
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1646
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/04/01/5
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0214.html
securityfocus.com / bid/28693
squid-cache.org / Advisories/SQUID-2007_2.txt
Patch
squid-cache.org / Versions/v2/2.6/changesets/11882.patch
Exploit
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-601-1