USN-6907-1: Squid vulnerability

23 July 2024

Squid could be made to crash if it processed specially crafted characters.

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Releases

Packages

  • squid - Web proxy cache server
  • squid3 - Web proxy cache server

Details

Joshua Rogers discovered that Squid did not properly handle multi-byte
characters during Edge Side Includes (ESI) processing. A remote attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause a memory corruption error, leading
to a denial of service.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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