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Gentoo: GLSA-200502-25 Normal: Squid DNS Response Denial Of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey February 18, 2005
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Issue in DNS response processing of Squid results in Denial of Service. Immediate upgrade required to avert system failures in vulnerable setups.
Squid contains a bug in the handling of certain DNS responses resulting in a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-25 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Squid: Denial of Service through DNS responses Date: February 18, 2005 Bugs: #81997 ID: 200502-25

Synopsis ======= Squid contains a bug in the handling of certain DNS responses resulting in a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix-like systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other protocols, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many other features.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-proxy/squ...

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