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Squid -- TRACE method handling denial of service

Description:

Squid advisory 2007:1 notes:

Due to an internal error Squid-2.6 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing the TRACE request method.

Workarounds:

To work around the problem deny access to using the TRACE method by inserting the following two lines before your first http_access rule.

acl TRACE method TRACE

http_access deny TRACE

References:

Affects:

portaudit: Squid -- TRACE method handling denial of service

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>