DSA-828-1 squid -- authentication handling

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2005-2917  

Upstream developers of squid, the popular WWW proxy cache, have discovered that changes in the authentication scheme are not handled properly when given certain request sequences while NTLM authentication is in place, which may cause the daemon to restart. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.9-10sarge2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.10-6. We recommend that you upgrade your squid packages.

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-828-1 squid -- authentication handling

Date Reported:
30 Sep 2005
Affected Packages:
squid
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2917.
More information:

Upstream developers of squid, the popular WWW proxy cache, have discovered that changes in the authentication scheme are not handled properly when given certain request sequences while NTLM authentication is in place, which may cause the daemon to restart.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.9-10sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.10-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-common_2.5.9-10sarge2_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid_2.5.9-10sarge2_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squid-cgi_2.5.9-10sarge2_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/squid/squidclient_2.5.9-10sarge2_sparc.deb

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