squid vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2005-2917  

Mike Diggins discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in Squid. Sending specially crafted NTML authentication requests to Squid caused the server to crash.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

1 October 2005

squid vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 5.04
  • Ubuntu 4.10

Software Description

Details

Mike Diggins discovered a remote Denial of Service vulnerability in Squid. Sending specially crafted NTML authentication requests to Squid caused the server to crash.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04
squid
Ubuntu 4.10
squid

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

References