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squid -- Denial of service vulnerability in request handling

Description:

Squid security advisory 2010:3 reports:

Due to an internal error in string handling Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests.

This problem allows any trusted client to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service.

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portaudit: squid -- Denial of service vulnerability in request handling

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>