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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200801-05.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200801-05">
<title>Squid: Denial of Service</title>
<synopsis>
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in Squid.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">squid</product>
<announced>January 09, 2008</announced>
<revised>January 09, 2008: 01</revised>
<bug>201209</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-proxy/squid" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.6.17</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.6.17</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Squid is a multi-protocol proxy server.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
The Wikimedia Foundation reported a memory leak vulnerability when
performing cache updates.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote attacker could perform numerous specially crafted requests to
the vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-proxy/squid-2.6.17&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6239">CVE-2007-6239</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:43:38 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:44:28 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:35:14 +0000">
py2
</metadata>
</glsa>