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Gentoo: GLSA 201411-11 Moderate: Squid DoS and Execute Code

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Calendar Grey November 27, 2014
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Squid, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition

Summary

An assertion failure in processing of SSL-Bump has been found in Squid. Heap based overflow is discovered when processing SNMP requests.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo remote code execution squid

Resolution

All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/squid-3.3.13-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-0128 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0128 [ 2 ] CVE-2014-7141 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-7141 [ 3 ] CVE-2014-7142 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-7142

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201411-11
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: November 27, 2014
Bugs: #504176, #522498
ID: 201411-11

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Squid, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-proxy/squid < 3.3.13-r1 >= 3.3.13-r1

Impact

===== A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request, possibly resulting in a executing of arbitrary code or Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.