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Debian 3.0 DSA-651-1 Moderate: Squid Buffer Overflow DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2005
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squid, the internet object cache, the popular WWW proxy cache.

Summary


"infamous41md" discovered a buffer overflow in the parser for
Gopher responses which will lead to memory corruption and usually
crash Squid.

CAN-2005-0095

"infamous41md" discovered an integer overflow in the receiver of
WCCP (Web Cache Communication Protocol) messages. An attacker
could send a specially crafted UDP datagram that will cause Squid
to crash.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.4.6-2woody5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.5.7-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an au...

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