Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0227 (squid)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0227: Updated squid packages fix
 security vulnerability 
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Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:16:45 +0200
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MGASA-2013-0227 - Updated squid packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Jul 2013
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0227.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 2
CVE: CVE-2013-4115

Description:
Due to incorrect data validation Squid is vulnerable to a buffer overflow
attack when processing specially crafted HTTP requests. This problem allows
any trusted client or client script who can generate HTTP requests to trigger
a buffer overflow in Squid, resulting in a termination of the Squid service
(CVE-2013-4115).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10516
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2013_2.txt
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4115

SRPMS:
- 2/core/squid-3.1.19-4.4.mga2