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Re: CVE Request -- Squid -- Denial of service due internal error in string handling (SQUID-2010:3)


From: Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:45:56 -0400 (EDT)

Please use CVE-2010-3072

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Jan Lieskovsky" <jlieskov () redhat com> wrote:

Hello Steve, vendors,

   Squid upstream has announced SQUID-2010:3:
   [1] http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2010_3.txt

   addressing one denial of service issue:
   A denial of service flaw was found in the way Squid proxy caching
   server internally processed NULL buffers. A remote, trusted client
   could use this flaw to cause squid daemon crash (dereference NULL
pointer)
   when processing specially-crafted request.

   ( Flaw description based on details from [1]. Henrik, please
correct / complete
     me if something isn't appropriate and needs change. Thanks, Jan
)

   Upstream patch (against Squid v3.0):
   [2]
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/changesets/squid-3.0-9189.patch

   Upstream patch (against Squid v3.1):
   [3]
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/squid-3.1-10090.patch

   Credit:
   The vulnerability was discovered by Phil Oester.

   References:
   [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630444

Steve, could you please allocate CVE id for this issue?

Thanks && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team


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