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Gentoo: GLSA-200903-38 Normal: Squid DoS Threats Disclosed

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Calendar Grey March 24, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Denial of Service (DoS) complications in Squid on Gentoo greatly impact system integrity and defense mechanisms, making immediate remediation essential
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Squid which allow for remote Denial of Service attacks.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-38 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Squid: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities Date: March 24, 2009 Bugs: #216319, #257585 ID: 200903-38

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Squid which allow for remote Denial of Service attacks.
Background ========= Squid is a full-featured web proxy cache.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-proxy/squid < 2.7.6 >= 2.7.6
========== * The arrayShrink function in lib/Array.c can cause an array to shrink to 0 entries, which triggers an assert error. NOTE: this issue is due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-623...

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