DSA-1646-1 squid -- array bounds check

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2008-1612   CVE-2007-6239  

A weakness has been discovered in squid, a caching proxy server. The flaw was introduced upstream in response to CVE-2007-6239, and announced by Debian in DSA-1482-1. The flaw involves an over-aggressive bounds check on an array resize, and could be exploited by an authorized client to induce a denial of service condition against squid. For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.5-6etch2. We recommend that you upgrade your squid packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1646-1 squid -- array bounds check

Date Reported:
07 Oct 2008
Affected Packages:
squid
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1612.
More information:

A weakness has been discovered in squid, a caching proxy server. The flaw was introduced upstream in response to CVE-2007-6239, and announced by Debian in DSA-1482-1. The flaw involves an over-aggressive bounds check on an array resize, and could be exploited by an authorized client to induce a denial of service condition against squid.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.5-6etch4.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5.orig.tar.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4.dsc
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-common_2.6.5-6etch4_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.6.5-6etch4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.6.5-6etch4_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.6.5-6etch4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.6.5-6etch4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.6.5-6etch4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.6.5-6etch4_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.6.5-6etch4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.6.5-6etch4_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.6.5-6etch4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.6.5-6etch4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.6.5-6etch4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.6.5-6etch4_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.6.5-6etch4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.6.5-6etch4_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.6.5-6etch4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.6.5-6etch4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.6.5-6etch4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.6.5-6etch4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.6.5-6etch4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.6.5-6etch4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.6.5-6etch4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.6.5-6etch4_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.6.5-6etch4_sparc.deb

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