aru Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Mandrakesoft Security Advisories MDKSA-2004:059 : squid Updated squid packages fix remotely exploitable vulnerability June 9th, 2004 A vulnerability exists in squid's NTLM authentication helper.This buffer overflow can be exploited by a remote attacker by sending an overly long password, thus overflowing the buffer and granting the ability to execute arbitrary code.This can only be exploited, however, if NTLM authentication is used.NTLM authentication is built by default in Mandrakelinux packages, but is not enabled in the default configuration. The vulnerability exists in 2.5.*-STABLE and 3.*-PRE.The provided packages are patched to fix this problem. The released versions of Mandrake GNU/Linux affected are: 9.1 9.2 10.0 Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at: www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:059 Other references: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0541 http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/di...vulnerabilities Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v0.0.9) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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