DSA-2631-1 squid3 -- denial of service

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2631-1 squid3 -- denial of service

Date Reported:

24 Feb 2013

Affected Packages:

squid3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 696187.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-5643, CVE-2013-0189.

More information:

Squid3, a fully featured Web proxy cache, is prone to a denial of service attack due to memory consumption caused by memory leaks in cachemgr.cgi:

• CVE-2012-5643

  squid's cachemgr.cgi was vulnerable to excessive resource use. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to perform a denial of service attack on the server and other hosted services.

• CVE-2013-0189

  The original patch for CVE-2012-5643 was incomplete. A remote attacker still could exploit this flaw to perform a denial of service attack.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.1.6-1.2+squeeze3.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 3.1.20-2.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.1.20-2.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid3 packages.