A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
The following packages are affected:
squid
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 2.5.5-6ubuntu0.6. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
A race condition was discovered in the handling of "Set-Cookie" headers. If the obsolete Netscape recommendation was used for handling cookies in the cache, it was possible for an attacker to steal the cookies of other users.