Debian: DSA-1646-2 Critical: Squid Denial Of Service Under Attack
debian
October 11, 2008
In DSA 1646-1, an update was announced for a denial of service
vulnerability in squid, a caching proxy server
Topics Covered
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.6.5-6etch4.
We recommend that you upgrade your squid packages.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------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
- ---------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 669 6e919d707f76cb9d991744834369b876
Size/MD5 checksum: 1636886 26cc918028340dc8ceb9c0c4b988d717
Size/MD5 checksum: 273381 54c814d93e2976176d0389bf22fb216a
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