Re: CVE request: Squid <2.7.6, 3.0.13, 3.1.0.5 DoS

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org> wrote:

> I do subscribe to oss-security so see these emails.  Still working on the
> best process to be able to respond more quickly.
>
> The SQUID advisory doesn't state what kind of DoS it is, and it's not
> clear from the patches either.  Is it a crash, hang, resource consumption,
> etc.?  Not essential from a CVE perspective but probanly convenient to
> Squid users.

I have more information in the Red Hat bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484246

A remote user can trigger an assert() call, so it's a crash basically.

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    JB