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Gentoo: GLSA-200406-13 High: Squid NTLM Authentication Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey June 17, 2004
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Gentoo users must address a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Squid related to NTLM authentication by verifying Squid version and updating accordingly
Squid contains a bug where it fails to properly check bounds of the 'pass' variable.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200406-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Squid: NTLM authentication helper buffer overflow Date: June 17, 2004 Bugs: #53367 ID: 200406-13

Synopsis ======= Squid contains a bug where it fails to properly check bounds of the 'pass' variable.
Background ========= Squid contains a bug in the function ntlm_check_auth(). It fails to do proper bounds checking on the values copyied to the 'pass' variable.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-www/squid <= 2.5.5-r1 >= 2.5.5-r2
========== Squid is a full-featured Web Proxy Cache designed to run on Unix systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URLs, as well as...

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