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Squid "storeBuffer()" Denial of Service Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA16708  
Release Date: 2005-09-07
Last Update: 2005-09-13

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Squid 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-2794 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Nickolay has reported a vulnerability in Squid, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the use of the "storeBuffer()" function when handling aborted requests. This may be exploited to crash Squid.

Solution:
Apply patch for 2.5.STABLE10:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v...quid-2.5.STABLE10-STORE_PENDING.patch

Provided and/or discovered by:
Nickolay

Changelog:
2005-09-13: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v...ugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE10-STORE_PENDING



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