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Debian: DSA-3522-1 Moderate: Squid3 Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2016
Scroller Debian
Ubuntu releases a patch for apache2 to address a security vulnerability linked to improper validation in corrupted server messages.
Alex Rousskov from The Measurement Factory discovered that Squid3, a fully featured web proxy cache, does not properly handle errors for certain malformed HTTP responses
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed
in version 3.1.20-2.2+deb7u4.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.4.8-6+deb8u2.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 3.5.15-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.5.15-1.

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/



Package: squid3
CVE ID: CVE-2016-2571

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