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squid -- denial of service

Affected packages
3.2	<=	squid	<	3.2.12
3.3	<=	squid	<	3.3.8

Details

VuXML ID	30a04ab4-ed7b-11e2-8643-8c705af55518
Discovery	2013-07-13
Entry	2013-07-15

Squid project reports:

Due to incorrect data validation Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted HTTP requests

This problem allows any client who can generate HTTP requests to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2013-4123
URL	http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2013_3.txt