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TITLE:
Squid "storeBuffer()" Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16708

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16708/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Squid 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/310/

DESCRIPTION:
Nickolay has reported a vulnerability in Squid, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the use of
the "storeBuffer()" function when handling aborted requests. This may
be exploited to crash Squid.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch for 2.5.STABLE10:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/squid-2.5.STABLE10-STORE_PENDING.patch

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Nickolay

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE10-STORE_PENDING

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