[ MDVSA-2009:241-1 ] squid

[dude67]

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Package : squid
Date : January 11, 2010
Affected: 2008.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in squid:

The strListGetItem function in src/HttpHeaderTools.c in Squid 2.7
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted
auth header with certain comma delimiters that trigger an infinite
loop of calls to the strcspn function (CVE-2009-2855).

This update provides a solution to this vulnerability.

Update:

Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0
customers.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-2855
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