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Squid Malformed Host Name Error Message Information Leakage
Secunia Advisory: SA13408
Release Date: 2004-12-09
Last Update: 2005-08-22
Popularity: 11,126 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Squid 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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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.

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