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Debian 4.0 DSA-1732-1 Critical: Squid3 Denial Of Service Alert

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Calendar Grey March 3, 2009
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1975 tackles a vulnerability in apache2. Solutions provided for potential security breach.
Joshua Morin, Mikko Varpiola and Jukka Taimisto discovered an assertion error in squid3, a full featured Web Proxy cache, which could lead to a denial of service attack

Summary


For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.STABLE8-3, which was already included in the lenny release.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.PRE5-5+etch1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.STABLE8-3.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Debian (oldstable)
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Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

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