Bug 476562 – <net-proxy/squid-{3.2.12,3.3.7}: "idnsALookup()" DNS Name Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2013-4115)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2013-07-11 18:21:04 UTC]

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Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Squid, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a 
DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the "idnsALookup()" function (dns_internal.cc) 
when handling DNS query generation requests and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by 
sending specially crafted HTTP requests.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 3.2 through 3.2.11 and versions 3.3 through 3.3.6.


Solution:
Update to version 3.2.12 or 3.3.7 or apply patch.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Nathan Hoad, Netbox Blue.

Original Advisory:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2013_2.txt


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please say explicitly if it is ready for the stabilization or not.

[Comment 1 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2013-07-11 22:03:43 UTC]

The versions with the fixes are already in the tree. @maintainers: please ack a stable.

[Comment 2 Eray Aslan 2013-07-12 05:15:12 UTC]

@security:  We can stabilise =net-proxy/squid-3.2.12.  Thank you.

[Comment 3 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2013-07-12 20:41:36 UTC]

Arches, please stabilize =net-proxy/squid-3.2.12, target arches: alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86. Thanks!

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-07-13 01:41:58 UTC]

(In reply to Chris Reffett from comment #3)
> Arches, please stabilize =net-proxy/squid-3.2.12, target arches: alpha amd64
> arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86. Thanks!

Like this please:

Arch teams, please test and mark stable:
=net-proxy/squid-3.2.12
Stable KEYWORDS : alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86

[Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-07-13 05:55:24 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-07-13 05:55:35 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-07-13 12:29:50 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-07-13 18:16:43 UTC]

ppc stable

[Comment 9 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-07-13 19:14:56 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 10 Eray Aslan 2013-07-14 08:52:50 UTC]

Another security bump in the meantime:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2013_3.txt

We should stabilize =net-proxy/squid-3.2.13

@security:  Please let me know how you want to proceed (separate bug? continue here?).  Thanks.

[Comment 11 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-07-14 14:19:28 UTC]

alpha stable

[Comment 12 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-07-14 17:36:48 UTC]

arm stable

[Comment 13 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-07-15 20:51:35 UTC]

Continued in bug #476960.

[Comment 14 Sergey Popov 2013-08-24 05:37:07 UTC]

GLSA vote: yes

[Comment 15 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2013-08-29 18:00:29 UTC]

CVE-2013-4115 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4115):
  Buffer overflow in the idnsALookup function in dns_internal.cc in Squid 3.2
  through 3.2.11 and 3.3 through 3.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a
  denial of service (memory corruption and server termination) via a long name
  in a DNS lookup request.

[Comment 16 Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) 2013-09-03 17:21:59 UTC]

Added to existing draft.

[Comment 17 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2013-09-27 09:52:18 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201309-22 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-22.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sergey Popov (pinkbyte).