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squid -- Denial of Service vulnerability in DNS handling

Description:

Squid security advisory 2010:1 reports:

Due to incorrect data validation Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted DNS packets.

This problem allows any trusted client or external server who can determine the squid receiving port to perform a short-term denial of service attack on the Squid service.

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portaudit: squid -- Denial of Service vulnerability in DNS handling

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>