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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200502-25">
+ <title>Squid: Denial of Service through DNS responses</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Squid contains a bug in the handling of certain DNS responses resulting in
+ a Denial of Service.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">Squid</product>
+ <announced>2005-02-18</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2005-02-18</revised>
+ <bug>81997</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-proxy/squid" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.5.8</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.5.8</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on
+ Unix-like systems. It supports proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and
+ other protocols, as well as SSL support, cache hierarchies, transparent
+ caching, access control lists and many other features.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Handling of certain DNS responses trigger assertion failures.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ By returning a specially crafted DNS response an attacker could
+ cause Squid to crash by triggering an assertion failure.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Squid users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-proxy/squid-2.5.8"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0446">CAN-2005-0446</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-02-17T20:33:19Z">
+ vorlon078
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-02-17T21:28:52Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-02-18T09:26:51Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>