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SUSE: 2014:1140-1 Important: Squid3 Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2014
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Resolving a significant vulnerability in squid3 on SUSE, a vital security patch has been released to improve performance.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

Squid3 was updated to fix a denial of service in Range Header processing, which would have allowed proxy users to crash the squid proxy process. (CVE-2014-3609) Security Issues: * CVE-2014-3609 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware: zypper in -t patch slessp3-squid3-9729 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3: zypper in -t patch slessp3-squid3-9729 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware (i586 x86_64): squid3-3.1.12-8.16.20.1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):

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security advisory denial of service important system update suse squid3

References

#893649

Cross- CVE-2014-3609

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3609.html

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:1140-1
Rating: important

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