Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-192-1

USN-192-1: Squid vulnerability

Publication date

1 October 2005

Overview

Squid vulnerability

Releases

Details

Mike Diggins discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in
Squid. Sending specially crafted NTML authentication requests to Squid
caused the server to crash.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
5.04 hoary	squid –
4.10 warty	squid –

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References

CVE-2005-2917

CVE-2005-2917