TITLE: Squid Malformed Host Name Error Message Information Leakage SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA13408 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/13408/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information WHERE: >From remote SOFTWARE: Squid 2.x http://secunia.com/product/310/ DESCRIPTION: Artur Szostak has reported a vulnerability in Squid, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information. The vulnerability is caused due to an error when returning error messages in response to malformed host names. This may in certain circumstances leak random information about e.g. other requests in the error messages. The vulnerability has been reported in Squid-2.5 on all platforms. SOLUTION: Apply patch: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/squid-2.5.STABLE7-dothost.patch PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Artur Szostak ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1143
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE7-dothost : Random error messages in response to malformed host name synopsis In certain conditions Squid returns random data as error messages in response to malformed host name, possibly leaking random internal information which may come from other requests. severity Cosmetic / Minor Security issue date 2004-12-07 23:45 bugzilla #1143 versions Squid-2.5 platforms All patch squid-2.5.STABLE7-dothost.patch ______ cyfred pls validate and apply the patch
*** Bug 73909 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Patchset updated in cvs (wait for sync out) Please use ebuild that applies PATCH_VERSION="20041210"
Thx cyfred, marked all stable this is ready for GLSA decision. Security please vote.
Error messages potentially involving the requests of other users do not seem very sensitive to me. I vote no.
/me votes no too looks like a minor issue
Closing without GLSA.
