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squid -- remote denial of service vulnerability

Affected packages
2.7.1 <= squid < 2.7.6
3.0.1 <= squid < 3.0.13

Details

VuXML ID 9c2460a4-f6b1-11dd-94d9-0030843d3802
Discovery 2009-02-04
Entry 2009-02-09
Modified 2009-02-10

Squid security advisory 2009:1 reports:

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.

[source]

References

CVE Name CVE-2009-0478
URL http://secunia.com/advisories/33731/
URL http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2009_1.txt

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