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VPR Score: 4.4
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
Description
Two denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in squid and squid3, a web proxy. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :
- CVE-2009-2855 Bastian Blank discovered that it is possible to cause a denial of service via a crafted auth header with certain comma delimiters.
- CVE-2010-0308 Tomas Hoger discovered that it is possible to cause a denial of service via invalid DNS header-only packets.
Solution
Upgrade the squid/squid3 packages.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 2.7.STABLE3-4.1lenny1 of the squid package and version 3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny3 of the squid3 package.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.5-6etch5 of the squid package and version 3.0.PRE5-5+etch2 of the squid3 package.