DSA-751-1 squid -- IP spoofing

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2005-1519  

The upstream developers have discovered a bug in the DNS lookup code of Squid, the popular WWW proxy cache. When the DNS client UDP port (assigned by the operating system at startup) is unfiltered and the network is not protected from IP spoofing, malicious users can spoof DNS lookups which could result in users being redirected to arbitrary web sites. For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.6-2woody9. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has already been fixed in version 2.5.9-9. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has already been fixed in version 2.5.9-9. We recommend that you upgrade your squid package.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-751-1 squid -- IP spoofing

Date Reported:
11 Jul 2005
Affected Packages:
squid
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 309504.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1519.
More information:

The upstream developers have discovered a bug in the DNS lookup code of Squid, the popular WWW proxy cache. When the DNS client UDP port (assigned by the operating system at startup) is unfiltered and the network is not protected from IP spoofing, malicious users can spoof DNS lookups which could result in users being redirected to arbitrary web sites.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.6-2woody9.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has already been fixed in version 2.5.9-9.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has already been fixed in version 2.5.9-9.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9.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_2.4.6-2woody9_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody9_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody9_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody9_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody9_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody9_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody9_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody9_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody9_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody9_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody9_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody9_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody9_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody9_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody9_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody9_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody9_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody9_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody9_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody9_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody9_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.4.6-2woody9_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.4.6-2woody9_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.4.6-2woody9_sparc.deb

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