Summary
The remote host is missing an update to squid3
announced via advisory DSA 2111-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202111-1
Insight
Phil Oester discovered that squid3, a fully featured Web Proxy cache, is prone to a denial of service attack via a specially crafted request that includes empty strings.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.STABLE8-3+lenny4.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.6-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your squid3 packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2010-3072 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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