From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2007 - 07:17:05 CST

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TITLE:
Squid Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23767

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23767/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Squid 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/310/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Squid, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An error in the handling of certain FTP URL requests can be
exploited to crash Squid by visiting a specially crafted FTP URL via
the proxy.

2) An error in the external_acl queue can cause Squid to crash when
it is under high load conditions.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 2.6. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.6.STABLE7.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/squid-2.6.STABLE7-RELEASENOTES.html#s12

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