Ubuntu Security Notice USN-724-1
25th February, 2009
squid vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 8.10
Software description
- squid
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).
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 8.10:
- squid 2.7.STABLE3-1ubuntu2.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.