DSA-3522-1 squid3 -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3522-1 squid3 -- security update

Date Reported:

20 Mar 2016

Affected Packages:

squid3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-2571.

More information:

Alex Rousskov from The Measurement Factory discovered that Squid3, a fully featured web proxy cache, does not properly handle errors for certain malformed HTTP responses. A remote HTTP server can exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit).

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.20-2.2+deb7u4.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.4.8-6+deb8u2.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.15-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.15-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid3 packages.