metadata/glsa/glsa-200801-05.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200801-05">
  <title>Squid: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in Squid.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">squid</product>
  <announced>January 09, 2008</announced>
  <revised>January 09, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>201209</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-proxy/squid" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.6.17</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.6.17</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Squid is a multi-protocol proxy server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The Wikimedia Foundation reported a memory leak vulnerability when
    performing cache updates.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could perform numerous specially crafted requests to
    the vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-proxy/squid-2.6.17&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6239">CVE-2007-6239</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:43:38 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:44:28 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:35:14 +0000">
    py2
  </metadata>
</glsa>