==========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-724-1          February 25, 2009
squid vulnerability
CVE-2009-0478
==========================================================
A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 8.10

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10:
  squid                           2.7.STABLE3-1ubuntu2.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

Details follow:

Joshua Morin, Mikko Varpiola and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Squid did
not properly validate the HTTP version when processing requests. A remote
attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service (assertion failure).


Updated packages for Ubuntu 8.10:

  Source archives:

          Size/MD5:   303042 9132293f589a71ae3f771e1ae6de30f1
          Size/MD5:     1252 6953f88d6f4825daabd9e77bd0fa1a88
          Size/MD5:  1782040 a4d7608696e2b617aa5853c7d23e25b0

  Architecture independent packages:

          Size/MD5:   495876 b6d1e76b140c792297c14382a06ed3e3

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon):

          Size/MD5:   771610 7f2ca95b0497cc23f0bf26b7a6503cc7
          Size/MD5:   119880 27ff06a902debe143acb7b3959fb1c52

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD):

          Size/MD5:   695708 312c710ebdb46e3017b02cb672d14524
          Size/MD5:   118638 f2f2f698523d49d8971c7a22faebc427

  lpia architecture (Low Power Intel Architecture):

          Size/MD5:   694080 6720b3aca93aabb7600a1a2c2f699af5
          Size/MD5:   118550 7484981bd7c4c8b6361362e98d5d1631

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5):

          Size/MD5:   777958 b9d530e92ad4638fb8d169ef55eb33f4
          Size/MD5:   120446 9899cd403bbca3e0e6f5a936cd2d9955

  sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC):

          Size/MD5:   719088 2781d6fd1c7adc0b76aa12670ac1abb5
          Size/MD5:   119398 8a26b4da728c31d7bd116666191575b2

Ubuntu 724-1: Squid vulnerability

February 26, 2009
Joshua Morin, Mikko Varpiola and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Squid didnot properly validate the HTTP version when processing requests

Summary

Update Instructions

References

Severity
squid vulnerability

Package Information

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