Scientific Linux: CVE-2011-4096 Moderate: Squid Denial of Service Risk

Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:07:21 -0600
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: squid on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: squid security update
Issue Date: 2011-12-06
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-4096

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

An input validation flaw was found in the way Squid calculated the total
number of resource records in the answer section of multiple name server
responses. An attacker could use this flaw to cause Squid to crash.
(CVE-2011-4096)

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_2.1.i686.rpm
 squid-debuginfo-3.1.10-1.el6_2.1.i686.rpm
 x86_64
 squid-3.1.10-1.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm
 squid-debuginfo-3.1.10-1.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team