USN-901-1: Squid vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• squid -

Details

It was discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain auth headers. A
remote attacker could exploit this with a specially-crafted auth header
and cause Squid to go into an infinite loop, resulting in a denial of
service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10.
(CVE-2009-2855)

It was discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain DNS packets. A
remote attacker could exploit this with a specially-crafted DNS packet
and cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0308)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• squid - 2.7.STABLE6-2ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 9.04

• squid - 2.7.STABLE3-4.1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 8.10

• squid - 2.7.STABLE3-1ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 8.04

• squid - 2.6.18-1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• squid - 2.5.12-4ubuntu2.5

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-2855
• CVE-2010-0308