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TITLE:
Squid TRACE Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24611

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24611/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Squid 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/310/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Squid, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the processing of
TRACE requests in squid/src/client_side.c. This can be exploited to
crash the service via a specially crafted TRACE request.

The vulnerability is reported in all Squid 2.6 versions up to
2.6.STABLE11.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.6.STABLE12.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2007_1.txt

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