Due to an internal error Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service
attack when processing specially crafted requests. This problem allows
any client to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service
(CVE-2009-0478).
The updated packages have been patched to adress this.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-0478
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