Scientific Linux: Moderate Advisory for Squid Update on SL6.x

Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:08:53 -0500
Reply-To: Pat Riehecky 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Organization: Fermilab
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: squid on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: squid security update
Issue Date: 2011-09-14
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-3205

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients,
supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Squid parsed replies from
remote Gopher servers. A remote user allowed to send Gopher requests to a
Squid proxy could possibly use this flaw to cause the squid child process
to crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the squid user,
by making Squid perform a request to an attacker-controlled Gopher server.

Users of squid should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
backported patch to correct this issue. After installing this update, the
squid service will be restarted automatically.

SL6:
 i386
 squid-3.1.10-1.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 squid-debuginfo-3.1.10-1.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
 x86_64
 squid-3.1.10-1.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
 squid-debuginfo-3.1.10-1.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team