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Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Squid-2.4.STABLE7

Package(s):squid CVE #(s):
Created:July 8, 2002 Updated:November 15, 2002
Description: Here is the security advisory for the Squid proxy server reporting several vulnerabilities in versions up to and including 2.4.STABLE7. Several of the bugs are believed to allow remote code execution.

The security advisory lists the following changes:

  • Several bugfixes and cleanup of the Gopher client, both to correct some security issues and to make Squid properly render certain Gopher menus.
  • Security fixes in how Squid parses FTP directory listings into HTML
  • FTP data channels are now sanity checked to match the address of the requested FTP server. This to prevent theft or injection of data. See the new ftp_sanitycheck directive if this sanity check is not desired.
  • The MSNT auth helper has been updated to v2.0.3+fixes for buffer overflow security issues found in this helper.
  • A security issue in how Squid forwards proxy authentication credentials has been fixed
Alerts:
SCO Group CSSA-2002-046.0 2002-11-14
Eridani ERISA-2002:031 2002-07-26
Mandrake MDKSA-2002:044 2002-07-17
Trustix 2002-0062 2002-07-15
SuSE SuSE-SA:2002:025 2002-07-09
Conectiva CLA-2002:506 2002-07-05

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