<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200509-06"> <title>Squid: Denial of Service vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> Squid contains several bugs when handling certain malformed requests resulting in a Denial of Service. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">Squid</product> <announced>2005-09-07</announced> <revised count="03">2006-05-22</revised> <bug>104603</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-proxy/squid" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.5.10-r2</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.5.10-r2</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix-like systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other protocols, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many more features. </p> </background> <description> <p> Certain malformed requests result in a segmentation fault in the sslConnectTimeout function, handling of other certain requests trigger assertion failures. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> By performing malformed requests an attacker could cause Squid to crash by triggering an assertion failure or invalid memory reference. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/squid-2.5.10-r2"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/">Squid Patches</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2794">CVE-2005-2794</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2796">CVE-2005-2796</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-09-05T08:24:13Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-09-05T08:39:15Z"> adir </metadata> </glsa>