Fedora Core Advisory: squid

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 16, 2004

Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-104
2004-04-15


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.


Update Information:


* Tue Mar 09 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason@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.

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.


Web Webster

Web Webster

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