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[RHSA-2014:1148-01] Important: squid security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Important: squid security update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:1148-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1148.html

Issue date: 2014-09-03

CVE Names: CVE-2013-4115 CVE-2014-3609

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1. Summary:

 

An updated squid package that fixes two security issues is now available

for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

 

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security

impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give

detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the

CVE links in the References section.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

 

3. Description:

 

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients,

supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects.

 

A flaw was found in the way Squid handled malformed HTTP Range headers.

A remote attacker able to send HTTP requests to the Squid proxy could use

this flaw to crash Squid. (CVE-2014-3609)

 

A buffer overflow flaw was found in Squid's DNS lookup module. A remote

attacker able to send HTTP requests to the Squid proxy could use this flaw

to crash Squid. (CVE-2013-4115)

 

Red Hat would like to thank the Squid project for reporting the

CVE-2014-3609 issue. Upstream acknowledges Matthew Daley as the original

reporter.

 

All Squid users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which

contains backported patches to correct these issues. After installing this

update, the squid service will be restarted automatically.

 

4. Solution:

 

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata

relevant to your system have been applied.

 

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to

use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

 

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

983653 - CVE-2013-4115 squid: buffer overflow when processing overly long DNS names (SQUID-2013:2)

1134209 - CVE-2014-3609 squid: assertion failure in Range header processing (SQUID-2014:2)

 

6. Package List:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):

 

Source:

squid-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.src.rpm

 

i386:

squid-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.i386.rpm

squid-debuginfo-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

squid-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.x86_64.rpm

squid-debuginfo-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):

 

Source:

squid-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.src.rpm

 

i386:

squid-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.i386.rpm

squid-debuginfo-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.i386.rpm

 

ia64:

squid-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.ia64.rpm

squid-debuginfo-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.ia64.rpm

 

ppc:

squid-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.ppc.rpm

squid-debuginfo-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.ppc.rpm

 

s390x:

squid-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.s390x.rpm

squid-debuginfo-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.s390x.rpm

 

x86_64:

squid-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.x86_64.rpm

squid-debuginfo-2.6.STABLE21-7.el5_10.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):

 

Source:

squid-3.1.10-22.el6_5.src.rpm

 

i386:

squid-3.1.10-22.el6_5.i686.rpm

squid-debuginfo-3.1.10-22.el6_5.i686.rpm

 

ppc64:

squid-3.1.10-22.el6_5.ppc64.rpm

squid-debuginfo-3.1.10-22.el6_5.ppc64.rpm

 

s390x:

squid-3.1.10-22.el6_5.s390x.rpm

squid-debuginfo-3.1.10-22.el6_5.s390x.rpm

 

x86_64:

squid-3.1.10-22.el6_5.x86_64.rpm

squid-debuginfo-3.1.10-22.el6_5.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):

 

Source:

squid-3.1.10-22.el6_5.src.rpm

 

i386:

squid-3.1.10-22.el6_5.i686.rpm

squid-debuginfo-3.1.10-22.el6_5.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

squid-3.1.10-22.el6_5.x86_64.rpm

squid-debuginfo-3.1.10-22.el6_5.x86_64.rpm

 

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

details on how to verify the signature are available from

https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

 

7. References:

 

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-4115.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-3609.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2014 Red Hat, Inc.

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