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TITLE:
Squid cachemgr.cgi Memory Leak Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51545

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-12-17

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

The vulnerability is caused due to memory leak errors within
cachemgr.cgi (tools/cachemgr.cc) when handling certain requests,
which can be exploited to consume resources and render the server
unusable.

Successful exploitation requires access to cachemgr.cgi.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.2.4 and 3.1.22.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.2.4 or 3.1.22.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Coverity Scan Project.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SQUID-2012:1:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2012_1.txt

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