Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-67-1

USN-67-1: Squid vulnerabilities

Publication date

21 January 2005

Overview

Squid vulnerabilities

Releases

4.10

Details

infamous41md discovered several Denial of Service vulnerabilities in
squid.

A malicious Gopher server could crash squid by sending a line bigger
than 4096 bytes. (CAN-2005-0094)

If squid is configured to send WCPP (Web Cache Communication Protocol)
messages to a “home router”, an attacker who was able to send UDP
packets with a forged source address of this router could crash the

erver with a specially crafted WCPP message. (CAN-2005-0095)

Previous versions of squid have a memory leak which gradually cause
memory exhaustion and eventual termination. (CAN-2005-0096)

A remote attacker could crash the server by sending a specially
crafted NTLM type 3 packet. (CAN-2005-0097)

infamous41md discovered several Denial of Service vulnerabilities in
squid.

A malicious Gopher server could crash squid by sending a line bigger
than 4096 bytes. (CAN-2005-0094)

erver with a specially crafted WCPP message. (CAN-2005-0095)

Previous versions of squid have a memory leak which gradually cause
memory exhaustion and eventual termination. (CAN-2005-0096)

A remote attacker could crash the server by sending a specially
crafted NTLM type 3 packet. (CAN-2005-0097)

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
4.10 warty	squid –

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USN-67-1: Squid vulnerabilities

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