[SECURITY] Updated squid package fixes a security vulnerability

Jay Fenlason fenlason at redhat.com
Thu Apr 15 18:33:56 UTC 2004


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-104
2004-04-15
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Name        : squid
Version     : 2.5.STABLE3                      
Release     : 1.fc1                  
Summary     : The Squid proxy caching server.
Description :
Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients,
supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional
caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single,
non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps meta data and especially
hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking
DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests.

Squid consists of a main server program squid, a Domain Name System
lookup program (dnsserver), a program for retrieving FTP data
(ftpget), and some management and client tools.

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Update Information:

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* Tue Mar 09 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason at redhat.com> 7:2.5.STABLE3-1.fc1

- Backport security fix for %00 hole.  See CAN-2004-0189:             
    The "%xx" URL decoding function in Squid 2.5STABLE4 and earlier allows
    remote attackers to bypass url_regex ACLs via a URL with a NULL       
    ("%00") characterm, which causes Squid to use only a portion of the
    requested URL when comparing it against the access control lists.  
- Backport security fix that adds urllogin acl type that can be used to
  protect vulnerable Microsoft Internet Explorer clients.


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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/

5b3bd9a972398edcacf4801ddc5718a2  SRPMS/squid-2.5.STABLE3-1.fc1.src.rpm
c48dccb3751ed519ac1189c8183540b7  i386/squid-2.5.STABLE3-1.fc1.i386.rpm
9a6eb17ff52b70020252026bb77b9279  i386/debug/squid-debuginfo-2.5.STABLE3-1.fc1.i386.rpm
6754ae8a0898506e7488975f9bb43cca  x86_64/squid-2.5.STABLE3-1.fc1.x86_64.rpm
617e9faefdfc4a3fa1c9018e0ac7787f  x86_64/debug/squid-debuginfo-2.5.STABLE3-1.fc1.x86_64.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  
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