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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: January 16, 2005
      Bugs: #77934, #77521
        ID: 200501-25

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Synopsis
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Squid contains vulnerabilities in the the code handling NTLM (NT Lan
Manager), Gopher to HTML and WCCP (Web Cache Communication Protocol)
which could lead to denial of service and arbitrary code execution.

Background
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Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix
systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URLs,
as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access
control lists and many other features.

Affected packages
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     Package          /  Vulnerable  /                      Unaffected
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  1  www-proxy/squid     < 2.5.7-r2                        >= 2.5.7-r2

Description
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Squid contains a vulnerability in the gopherToHTML function and
incorrectly checks the 'number of caches' field when parsing
WCCP_I_SEE_YOU messages. Furthermore the NTLM code contains two errors.
One is a memory leak in the fakeauth_auth helper and the other is NULL
pointer dereferencing error.

Impact
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With the WCCP issue an attacker could cause denial of service by
sending a specially crafted UDP packet. With the Gopher issue an
attacker might be able to execute arbitrary code by enticing a user to
connect to a malicious Gopher server. The NTLM issues could lead to
denial of service by memory consumption or by crashing Squid.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-proxy/squid-2.5.7-r2"

References
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  [ 1 ] Secunia Advisory SA13825
        http://secunia.com/advisories/13825/
  [ 2 ] Secunia Advisory SA13789
        http://secunia.com/advisories/13789/

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-25.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0