Fedora 10: 2009:10743 Critical: SquidGuard Buffer Overflow Fix

squidGuard can be used to

- limit the web access for some users to a list of accepted/well known

web servers and/or URLs only.

- block access to some listed or blacklisted web servers and/or URLs

for some users.

- block access to URLs matching a list of regular expressions or words

for some users.

- enforce the use of domainnames/prohibit the use of IP address in

URLs.

- redirect blocked URLs to an "intelligent" CGI based info page.

- redirect unregistered user to a registration form.

- redirect popular downloads like Netscape, MSIE etc. to local copies.

- redirect banners to an empty GIF.

- have different access rules based on time of day, day of the week,

date etc.

- have different rules for different user groups.

- and much more..

Neither squidGuard nor Squid can be used to

- filter/censor/edit text inside documents

- filter/censor/edit embeded scripting languages like JavaScript or

VBscript inside HTML

Fixes language file issue, but more importantly. . . --------------- squidGuard upstream has released patches fixing (quoting from upstream advisories): a, This patch fixes one buffer overflow problem in sgLog.c when overlong URLs are requested. SquidGuard will then go into emergency mode were no blocking occurs. This is not required in this situation. URL: ---- b, This patch fixes two bypass problems with URLs which length is close to the limit defined by MAX_BUF (default: 4096) in squidGuard and MAX_URL (default: 4096 in squid 2.x and 8192 in squid 3.x) in squid. For this kind of URLs the proxy request exceeds MAX_BUF causing squidGuard to complain about not being able to parse the squid request. URL: ----