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USN-904-1: Squid vulnerability

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USN-904-1: Squid vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/15/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The htcpHandleTstRequest function in htcp.c in Squid 2.x before 2.6.STABLE24 and 2.7 before 2.7.STABLE8, and htcp.cc in 3.0 before 3.0.STABLE24, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via crafted packets to the HTCP port.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-squid

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