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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53518
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-688-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'squid' package(s) announced via the DSA-688-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'squid' package(s) announced via the DSA-688-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Upstream developers have discovered several problems in squid, the Internet object cache, the popular WWW proxy cache. A remote attacker can cause squid to crash via certain DNS responses.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.6-2woody7.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.5.8-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid package.

Affected Software/OS:
'squid' package(s) on Debian 3.0.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0446
BugTraq ID: 12551
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12551
Bugtraq: 20050221 [USN-84-1] Squid vulnerabilities (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110901183320453&w=2
Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2005:931
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000931
Debian Security Information: DSA-688 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-688
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-25.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:047
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11264
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-173.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-201.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/14271
XForce ISS Database: squid-xstrndup-dos(19332)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19332
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