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Squid Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory:
SA23767
Release Date:
2007-01-16
Last Update:
2007-01-25
Critical:
Less critical
Impact:
DoS
Where:
From remote
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch
Software:
Squid 2.x
CVE reference:
CVE-2007-0247
(Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-0248
(Secunia mirror)
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Description
:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Squid, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) An error in the handling of certain FTP URL requests can be exploited to crash Squid by visiting a specially crafted FTP URL via the proxy.
2) An error in the external_acl queue can cause Squid to crash when it is under high load conditions.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 2.6. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution
:
Update to version 2.6.STABLE7.
Provided and/or discovered by
:
1) David Duncan and Ross Palmer.
2) Erick Dantas Rotole
Changelog
:
2007-01-17: Added CVE reference.
2007-01-25: Updated "Provided and/or discovered by" section.
Original Advisory
:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v...uid-2.6.STABLE7-RELEASENOTES.html#s12
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