Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1732-1 squid3 -- denial of service

Date Reported:

03 Mar 2009

Affected Packages:

squid3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0478.

More information:

Joshua Morin, Mikko Varpiola and Jukka Taimisto discovered an assertion error in squid3, a full featured Web Proxy cache, which could lead to a denial of service attack.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.PRE5-5+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.STABLE8-3, which was already included in the lenny release.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.STABLE8-3.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1.dsc
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-common_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_ia64.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch1_s390.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.