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squid -- several remote denial of service vulnerabilities

Description:

Squid security advisory 2009:2 reports:

Due to incorrect buffer limits and related bound checks Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests or responses.

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

These problems allow any trusted client or external server to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service.

Squid-2.x releases are not affected.

References:

Affects:

portaudit: squid -- several remote denial of service vulnerabilities

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>