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Squid FTP Server Response Handling Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA17271
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Release Date:
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2005-10-20
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Popularity:
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11,952 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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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-2005-3258
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Description:
M.A.Young has reported a vulnerability in Squid, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in handling certain FTP server responses. This can be exploited to crash Squid by visiting a malicious FTP server via the proxy.
The vulnerability has been reported in Squid-2.5 and prior.
Solution:
Apply patch for 2.5.STABLE11:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v...-2.5.STABLE11-rfc1738_do_escape.patch
Provided and/or discovered by:
M.A.Young
Original Advisory:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v...#squid-2.5.STABLE11-rfc1738_do_escape
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