A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the handling of aborted requests. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash Squid by sending specially crafted requests. (CAN-2005-2794)
Alex Masterov discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the sslConnectTimeout() function. By sending specially crafted SSL requests, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash Squid. (CAN-2005-2796)
13 September 2005
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in the handling of aborted requests. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash Squid by sending specially crafted requests. (CAN-2005-2794)
Alex Masterov discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the sslConnectTimeout() function. By sending specially crafted SSL requests, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash Squid. (CAN-2005-2796)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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