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Squid Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA23767
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Release Date:
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2007-01-16
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Last Update:
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2007-01-25
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Popularity:
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10,149 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-2007-0247
CVE-2007-0248
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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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