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Fedora 10: 2010-1604 High: mod_security 2.5.2 Security Patch

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Release of squidGuard 1.2.1 for Fedora 9 brings vital security fix SG-2008-06-13. This update is essential for maintaining effective web access restrictions.
Update to 1.2.1, and patch for SG-2008-06-13

Summary

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

Update to 1.2.1, and patch for SG-2008-06-13

* Wed Feb 11 2009 Jon Ciesla - 1.2.1-1

- Fix sg-2008-06-13, BZ 452467.

* Wed Feb 11 2009 Jon Ciesla - 1.2.1-1

- Update to 1.2.1, BZ 245377.

- Dropped upstream patch.

- Updated blacklists.

[ 1 ] Bug #452467 - squidGuard: "trailing dot" domain access restriction bypass

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452467

su -c 'yum update squidGuard' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 9
Version: 1.2.1
Release: 2.fc9
URL: Summary : Filter, redirector and access controller plugin for squid

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