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[SA27910] Squid Cache Update Denial of Service Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 14:17:05 CST

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TITLE:
Squid Cache Update Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27910

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27910/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

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

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
processing of cache update replies and can be exploited to crash an
affected server.

The vulnerability is reported in Squid 2.x versions prior to
2.6.STABLE17.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.6.STABLE17 or apply patch.
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/changesets/11780.patch

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2007_2.txt

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