Secunia Security Advisory - Fedora has issued an update for squidGuard. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
Fedora update for squidGuard
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33951
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33951/
DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for squidGuard. This fixes a security
issue, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain
security restrictions.
The security issue is caused due to an error when processing requests
to blocked domains, which can be exploited to bypass the filter by
adding a trailing dot to the domain.
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages using the yum utility ("yum update
squidGuard").
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2009-1520:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00360.html
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