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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------