Your submission was sent successfully! Close

You have successfully unsubscribed! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates about Ubuntu and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

CVE-2011-4096

Published: 17 November 2011

The idnsGrokReply function in Squid before 3.1.16 does not properly free memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon abort) via a DNS reply containing a CNAME record that references another CNAME record that contains an empty A record.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
squid3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hardy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lucid Not vulnerable
(code not present)
maverick
Released (3.1.6-1.1ubuntu1.2)
natty
Released (3.1.11-1ubuntu0.1)
oneiric
Released (3.1.14-1ubuntu0.1)
upstream
Released (3.1.16-1)
Patches:
vendor: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1791.html
vendor: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2381