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Posted on 30 August 2011
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TITLE:
Squid Gopher Response Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45805
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-08-30
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Squid, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially
compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing
Gopher responses and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via
an overly long string.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA13825
The vulnerability is reported in versions 3.0.x prior to 3.0.STABLE25
and 3.1.x prior to 3.1.14
SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.0.STABLE26 or 3.1.15.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Ben Hawkes, Google Security Team.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2011_3.txt
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