Debian: DSA 751-1 Critical: Squid IP Spoofing Remote Threat
debian
July 11, 2005
The upstream developers have discovered a bug in the DNS lookup code
of Squid, the popular WWW proxy cache.
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has already been
fixed in version squid-2.5.9-9.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has already been
fixed in version squid-2.5.9-9.
We recommend that you upgrade your squid package.
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 3.0 alias woody
Size/MD5 checksum: 612 3fa0175264bf3047e24cdfedb998a562
Size/MD5 checksum: 251983 8f9ff155f1aa9e6dd4eb7cedd1bd3d72
Size/MD5 checksum: 1081920 59ce2c58da189626d77e27b9702ca228
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD...
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