oss-security - Re: CVE request: Squid <2.7.6, 3.0.13, 3.1.0.5 DoS

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Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:39:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Cc: coley@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: Squid <2.7.6, 3.0.13, 3.1.0.5 DoS

----- "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.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.

-- 
    JB

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