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USN-724-1: Squid vulnerability

25 February 2009

Squid vulnerability

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Releases

Packages

Details

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).

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.10

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

References