DSA 688-1: New squid packages fix denial of service
Posted on: 02/23/2005 05:59 AM
New sqid packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 688-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 23rd, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Package : squid Vulnerability : mising input sanitising Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0446
Upstream developers have discovered several problems in squid, the Internet object cache, the popular WWW proxy cache. A remote attacker can cause squid to crash via certain DNS responses.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.6-2woody7.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.5.8-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your squid package.
Upgrade Instructions ---------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody ---------------------------------