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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2111-1 (squid3)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

13 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to squid3 announced via advisory DSA 2111-1.

Insight

Insight

Phil Oester discovered that squid3, a fully featured Web Proxy cache, is prone to a denial of service attack via a specially crafted request that includes empty strings. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny4. For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.6-1.1. We recommend that you upgrade your squid3 packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202111-1

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