Squid 3.1.6 DNS Replay Denial of Service

medium Log Correlation Engine Plugin ID 801040

Synopsis

The remote proxy server is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack.

Description

Squid 3.1.6 is potentially affected by a denial of service vulnerability that is caused by an assertion failure when contacting IPv4-only DNS resolvers.

Solution

Upgrade to Squid 3.1.7 or later.

See Also

bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3021

http://.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/201008/0480.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 801040

Family: Web Servers

Published: 9/16/2010

Nessus ID: 48433

Vulnerability Information

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2951

BID: 42645