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Debian DSA-3014-1 Severe: Squid3 Denial Of Service Attack

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Calendar Grey August 28, 2014
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Debian Security Notice DSA-3015-2 concerns Nginx vulnerabilities regarding improper authentication and potential DDoS exploitations. Update advised.
Matthew Daley discovered that Squid3, a fully featured web proxy cache, did not properly perform input validation in request parsing
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Summary

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: squid3
CVE ID: CVE-2014-3609

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