DSA-721-1 squid -- design flaw

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2005-1345  

Michael Bhola discovered a bug in Squid, the popular WWW proxy cache. Squid does not trigger a fatal error when it identifies missing or invalid ACLs in the http_access configuration, which could lead to less restrictive ACLs than intended by the administrator. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.6-2woody8. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.9-7. We recommend that you upgrade your squid packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-721-1 squid -- design flaw

Date Reported:
06 May 2005
Affected Packages:
squid
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 307132.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1345.
More information:

Michael Bhola discovered a bug in Squid, the popular WWW proxy cache. Squid does not trigger a fatal error when it identifies missing or invalid ACLs in the http_access configuration, which could lead to less restrictive ACLs than intended by the administrator.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.6-2woody8.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.9-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody8_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody8_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody8_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody8_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody8_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody8_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody8_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody8_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody8_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody8_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody8_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody8_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody8_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody8_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody8_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody8_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody8_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody8_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody8_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody8_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody8_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody8_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody8_sparc.deb

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