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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2304-1 (squid3)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to squid3 announced via advisory DSA 2304-1.
Insight
Insight
Ben Hawkes discovered that squid3, a full featured Web Proxy cache (HTTP proxy), is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing gopher server replies. An attacker can exploit this flaw by connecting to a gopher server that returns lines longer than 4096 bytes. This may result in denial of service conditions (daemon crash) or the possibly the execution of arbitrary code with rights of the squid daemon. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny5. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.6-1.2+squeeze1. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.15-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.15-1.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your squid3 packages.