Debian: DSA-3014-1: squid3 security update

Matthew Daley discovered that Squid3, a fully featured web proxy cache, did not properly perform input validation in request parsing. A remote attacker could use this flaw to mount a denial of service by sending crafted Range requests.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3014-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
http://www.debian.org/security/                      Salvatore Bonaccorso
August 28, 2014                        http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : squid3
CVE ID         : CVE-2014-3609
Debian Bug     : 759509

Matthew Daley discovered that Squid3, a fully featured web proxy cache,
did not properly perform input validation in request parsing. A remote
attacker could use this flaw to mount a denial of service by sending
crafted Range requests.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.1.20-2.2+deb7u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid3 packages.

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