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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-558-1 squid -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

25 Jul 2016

Affected Packages:

squid

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-4554.

More information:

A security issue has been discovered in the Squid chaching proxy, on its 2.7.STABLE9 version branch.

• CVE-2016-4554

  Jianjun Chen found that Squid was vulnerable to a header smuggling attack that could lead to cache poisoning and to bypass of same-origin security policy in Squid and some client browsers.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, this issue has been fixed in version 2.7.STABLE9-4.1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your squid packages.

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