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CVE-2010-2951

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2951 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Squid 3.1.6, specifically in the dns_internal.cc component, when IPv6 DNS resolution is disabled. An attacker can trigger an assertion failure and daemon exit by sending an IPv4 DNS response with the TC bit set, causing the Squid proxy to crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in a complete loss of availability for the affected Squid instance. Despite its age and a high FAUCET Risk Score of 96/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
31.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3146 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: squid

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2951Low

squid: child assertion failure when processing large DNS replies with no IPv6 resolver present

Aug 18, 2010

References

bazaar.launchpad.net / ~squid/squid/3.1/revision/10072
Patch
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
bugs.squid-cache.org / show_bug.cgi
bugs.squid-cache.org / show_bug.cgi
marc.info
PatchVendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/08/24/6
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/08/24/7
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/08/25/2
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/08/25/6
squid-cache.org / Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/squid-3.1-10072.patch
Patch