Debian Lenny: DSA-2111-1 Critical: Squid3 Denial Of Service
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September 19, 2010
Phil Oester discovered that squid3, a fully featured Web Proxy cache, is prone to a denial of service attack via a specially crafted request that includes empty strings
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Summary
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny4.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1.6-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your squid3 packages.
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 5.0 alias lenny
Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 20699 8660e684fab99044d17ee435...
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