Gentoo GLSA-200701-22 Moderate: Squid DoS Attacks Impacting Services

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Squid: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities Date: January 25, 2007 Bugs: #162364 ID: 200701-22

Synopsis ======= Two vulnerabilities have been found in Squid which make it susceptible to Denial of Service attacks.
Background ========= Squid is a multi-protocol proxy server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-proxy/squid < 2.6.7 >= 2.6.7
========== Squid fails to correctly handle ftp:// URI's. There is also an error in the external_acl queue which can cause an infinite looping condition.
Impact ===== An attacker could attempt to retri...