USN-93-1: Squid vulnerability

Publication date

8 March 2005

Overview

Squid vulnerability

Releases


Details

A race condition was discovered in the handling of “Set-Cookie”
headers. If the obsolete Netscape recommendation was used for handling
cookies in the cache, it was possible for an attacker to steal the
cookies of other users.

A race condition was discovered in the handling of “Set-Cookie”
headers. If the obsolete Netscape recommendation was used for handling
cookies in the cache, it was possible for an attacker to steal the
cookies of other users.

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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