Package : squid Vulnerability : authentication handling Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-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.
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 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------