Secunia Security Advisory - Artur Szostak has reported a vulnerability in Squid, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Squid Malformed Host Name Error Message Information Leakage
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13408
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13408/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Squid 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/310/
DESCRIPTION:
Artur Szostak has reported a vulnerability in Squid, which can be
exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of potentially
sensitive information.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when returning error
messages in response to malformed host names. This may in certain
circumstances leak random information about e.g. other requests in
the error messages.
The vulnerability has been reported in Squid-2.5 on all platforms.
SOLUTION:
Apply patch:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/squid-2.5.STABLE7-dothost.patch
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Artur Szostak
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1143
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