<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200801-05"> <title>Squid: Denial of Service</title> <synopsis> A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in Squid. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">squid</product> <announced>2008-01-09</announced> <revised count="01">2008-01-09</revised> <bug>201209</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-proxy/squid" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.6.17</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.6.17</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Squid is a multi-protocol proxy server. </p> </background> <description> <p> The Wikimedia Foundation reported a memory leak vulnerability when performing cache updates. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could perform numerous specially crafted requests to the vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service. </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-2.6.17"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6239">CVE-2007-6239</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-01-05T21:43:38Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-01-05T21:44:28Z"> p-y </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-01-07T21:35:14Z"> py2 </metadata> </glsa>