Squid Request and Response Processing Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1022607 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1022607
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2009-2621, CVE-2009-2622
(Links to External Site)
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Updated: Aug 14 2009
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Original Entry Date: Jul 28 2009
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Impact:
Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 3.0 - 3.0.STABLE16, 3.1 - 3.1.0.11
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Description:
SeveraA vulnerabilities were reported in Squid. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
A remote user can send specially crafted requests or responses to cause the target service to crash.
The vulnerabilities are due to incorrect buffer size limits, incorrect bounds checking, and incorrect data validation.
Rob Middleton of Centenary Institute, Tuomo Untinen, Ossi Herrala, and Jukka Taimisto from the CROSS project at Codenomicon Ltd., and Alex Montoanelli of www.unetvale.net reported these vulnerabilities.
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Impact:
A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix (3.0.STABLE17, 3.1.0.12).
The following patches are also available.
Squid 3.0:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/changesets/b9070.patch
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/changesets/b9074.patch
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/changesets/b9075.patch
Squid 3.1:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/b9654.patch
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/b9661.patch
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2009_2.txt
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Vendor URL: www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2009_2.txt (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Boundary error, Input validation error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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