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CVE-2012-5643: Input Validation

First published: Mon Dec 17 2012(Updated: )

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the CGI Cache Manager of the Squid proxy caching server processed certain requests. A remote attacker could this this flaw to cause the squid service to consume excessive amount of resources. References: [1] <a href="http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2012_1.txt">http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2012_1.txt</a> [2] <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447596">https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447596</a> [3] <a href="https://secunia.com/advisories/51545/">https://secunia.com/advisories/51545/</a> Upstream patches: [4] <a href="http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/squid-3.1-10479.patch">http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/squid-3.1-10479.patch</a> (against the 3.1 branch) [5] <a href="http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.2/changesets/squid-3.2-11714.patch">http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.2/changesets/squid-3.2-11714.patch</a> (against the 3.2 branch)

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Squid Web Proxy Cache=2.0
Squid Web Proxy Cache=2.1
Squid Web Proxy Cache=2.2
Squid Web Proxy Cache=2.3
Squid Web Proxy Cache=2.4
Squid Web Proxy Cache=2.5
Squid Web Proxy Cache=2.6
Squid Web Proxy Cache=2.7
Squid Web Proxy Cache=2.7-stable3
Squid Web Proxy Cache=2.7-stable4
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0-rc4
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable1
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable2
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable3
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable4
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable5
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable6
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable7
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable8
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable9
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable10
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable11
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable11-rc1
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable12
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable13
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable14
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable15
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable16
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable16-rc1
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable17
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable18
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable19
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable20
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable21
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable22
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable23
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable24
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.0.stable25
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.1
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.2
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.3
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.4
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.5
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.6
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.7
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.8
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.9
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.10
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.11
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.12
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.13
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.14
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.15
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.16
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.17
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.0.18
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.1
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.2
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.10
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.11
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.12
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.13
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.14
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.15
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.16
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.17
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.18
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.19
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.20
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.1.21
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.1
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.2
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.3
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.4
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.5
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.6
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.7
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.8
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.9
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.10
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.11
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.12
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.13
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.14
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.15
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.16
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.17
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.18
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.0.19
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.1
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.2
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.2.3
Squid Web Proxy Cache=3.3.0.1

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