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Gentoo: GLSA-201607-01 Normal: Squid Execution Risk and Issues

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Calendar Grey July 9, 2016
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
All Squid users are encouraged to perform an upgrade as soon as possible due to several security vulnerabilities that could result in critical risks such as remote code execution.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Squid, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution, or cause a Denial of Service condition

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squid. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo multiple issues squid execution risk normal severity

Resolution

All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-proxy/squid-3.5.19"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2014-6270 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-6270 [ 2 ] CVE-2014-6270 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-6270 [ 3 ] CVE-2016-2569 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2569 [ 4 ] CVE-2016-2569 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2569 [ 5 ] CVE-2016-2570 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2570 [ 6 ] CVE-2016-2570 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2570 [ 7 ] CVE-2016-2571 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2571 [ 8 ] CVE-2016-2571 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2571 [ 9 ] CVE-2016-2572 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2572 [ 10 ] CVE-2016-2572 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-2572 [ 11 ] CVE-2016-3947 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3947 [ 12 ] CVE-2016-3948 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-3948 [ 13 ] CVE-2016-4051 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvena...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-01
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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: July 09, 2016
Bugs: #536276, #575542, #578970, #580656, #582814
ID: 201607-01

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo multiple issues squid execution risk normal severity

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Squid, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Background

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 SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent caching, access control lists and many other features.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-proxy/squid < 3.5.19 >= 3.5.19

Impact

===== An attacker can possibly execute arbitrary code or create a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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