From tsl@trustix.com Thu Jul 19 18:38:29 2001 From: Trustix Secure Linux Advisor To: tsl-announce@trustix.org Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, security-alerts@linuxsecurity.com Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:22:43 +0000 Subject: TSLSA-2001-0013 - Squid -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2001-0013 Package name: Squid Severity: Allows for unauthorized use of the web proxy Date: 2001-07-19 Affected versions: TSL 1.01, 1.1, 1.2 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Problem description: From the squid list of changes: Versions 2.3.STABLE2 through 2.3.STABLE4 have a serious security bug when Squid is used in the 'httpd_accel' mode. If you configured httpd_accel_with_proxy off then any request to Squid is allowed. Malicious users may use your proxy to port-scan remote systems, forge email, and do other nasty things. Note that this is not the default configuration on TSL, but we still recommend that you update it. Action: We recommend that all systems with this package installed are upgraded. Location: All TSL updates are available from Automatic updates: Users of the SWUP tool, can enjoy having updates automatically installed using 'swup --upgrade'. Get SWUP from: Questions? Check out our mailing lists: Verification: This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL sign key. This key available from: The advisory itself is available from the errata page at or directly at MD5sums of the packages: - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7c37a1e0b76120b84c0a305be9ec1a02 ./1.2/SRPMS/squid-2.3.STABLE5-1tr.src.rpm b45ae433ad5c7c0f34b4a1820e2a2fb0 ./1.2/RPMS/squid-2.3.STABLE5-1tr.i586.rpm 7c37a1e0b76120b84c0a305be9ec1a02 ./1.1/SRPMS/squid-2.3.STABLE5-1tr.src.rpm d03f8db68e6b8839fe677735a04562fd ./1.1/RPMS/squid-2.3.STABLE5-1tr.i586.rpm - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustix Security Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7VqEFwRTcg4BxxS0RAvApAJ9yVKE8s091yCcnmyKLGw3yI64yEgCeNWDS AOlx4XvOynVZGHytFk1o4xA= =1w0D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----