DSA-1732-1 squid3 -- denial of service

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2009-0478  

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.

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+etch4.

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+etch4.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4.dsc
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-common_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_ia64.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-client_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid3/squid3-cgi_3.0.PRE5-5+etch4_s390.deb

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