metadata/glsa/glsa-201209-08.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201209-08">
  <title>SquidClamav: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in SquidClamav may result in Denial of Service.</synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">squidclamav</product>
  <announced>September 24, 2012</announced>
  <revised>September 24, 2012: 1</revised>
  <bug>428778</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-proxy/squidclamav" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">6.8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">6.8</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>SquidClamav is a HTTP anti-virus for Squid based on ClamAV and ICAP.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>SquidClamav does not properly escape URLs before passing them to the
      system command call.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted URL to SquidClamav,
      possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All SquidClamav users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-proxy/squidclamav-6.8"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-3501">CVE-2012-3501</uri>
    <uri link="http://squidclamav.darold.net/news.html">SquidClamav News</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:12:43 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:23:20 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>