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Squid Malformed Host Name Error Message Information Leakage
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA13408
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Release Date:
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2004-12-09
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Last Update:
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2005-08-22
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Popularity:
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10,377 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Squid 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-2479
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Description:
Artur Szostak has reported a vulnerability in Squid, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when returning error messages in response to malformed host names. This may in certain circumstances leak random information about e.g. other requests in the error messages.
The vulnerability has been reported in Squid-2.5 on all platforms.
Solution:
Apply patch:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/squid-2.5.STABLE7-dothost.patch
Provided and/or discovered by:
Artur Szostak
Changelog:
2005-08-22: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1143
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