Package : squid Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-1999-0710 CAN-2004-0918 Debian Bug : 133131
Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squid, the internet object cache, the popular WWW proxy cache. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-1999-0710
It is possible to bypass access lists and scan arbitrary hosts and ports in the network through cachemgr.cgi, which is installed by default. This update disables this feature and introduces a configuration file (/etc/squid/cachemgr.conf) to control this behavier.
CAN-2004-0918
The asn_parse_header function (asn1.c) in the SNMP module for Squid allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via certain SNMP packets with negative length fields that causes a memory allocation error.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.6-2woody4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.5.7-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your squid package.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------