Friday Squid Blogging: A Tracking Device for Squid

Really: After years of "making do" with the available technology for his squid studies, Mooney created a versatile tag that allows him to research squid behavior. With the help of Kakani Katija, an engineer adapting the tag for jellyfish at California's Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute...

Squid Proxy SNMP Query Rejection Denial of Service

A denial-of-service vulnerability has been reported in the SNMP component of Squid Proxy. The vulnerability is due to a memory leak in SNMP query rejection code. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of SNMP queries to the target system...

Friday Squid Blogging: Sharp-Eared Enope Squid

Beautiful photo of a three-inch-long squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : squid (EulerOS-SA-2019-1044)

According to the versions of the squid packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability has been discovered in squid in the way X.509 certificates fields are displayed in some error pages. An...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid with Chorizo, Tomato, and Beans

Nice recipe. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Lollipops

Two squid lollipops, handmade by Shinri Tezuka. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

squid is vulnerable to remote code execution. It was found that the fix for CVE-2016-4051 released via RHSA-2016:1138 did not properly prevent the stack overflow in the mungeotherline function. A remote attacker could send specially crafted data to the Squid proxy, which would exploit the cachemg...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

squid is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists through buffer overflow in the idnsALookup function in dnsinternal.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 ...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

squid is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists as multiple memory leaks in tools/cachemgr.cc in cachemgr.cgi in Squid 2.x and 3.x before 3.1.22, 3.2.x before 3.2.4, and 3.3.x before 3.3.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via ...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

squid is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists as squid 3.1 before 3.3.12 and 3.4 before 3.4.4, when SSL-Bump is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure via a crafted range request...

Friday Squid Blogging: New Giant Squid Video

This is a fantastic video of a young giant squid named Heck swimming around Toyama Bay near Tokyo. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: The Future of the Squid Market

It's growing. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Fedora 29 : 7:squid (2018-714298460e)

Version update + Security fix for CVE-2018-19131 and CVE-2018-19132 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : squid (SUSE-SU-2018:3786-1)

This update for squid fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2018-19131: Fixed Cross-Site-Scripting vulnerability in the TLS error handling bsc1113668. CVE-2018-19132: Fixed small memory leak in processing of SNMP packets bsc1113669. Non-security issues fixed: Create runtime...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Focused Menus in Croatia

This is almost over: From 1 December 2018 -- 6 January 2019, Days of Adriatic squid will take place at restaurants all over north-west Istria. Restaurants will be offering affordable full-course menus based on Adriatic squid, combined with quality local olive oil and fine wines. As usual, you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: squid-4.4-1.fc29

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Unlike traditional caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM, caches DN...

Friday Squid Blogging: Illegal North Korean Squid Fishing

North Korea is engaged in even more illegal squid fishing than previously. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

The vulnerability of the Squid proxy server, related to accessing beyond the allocated buffer memory, allows attackers to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Squid proxy server is related to an error that causes data to exceed the allocated memory buffer when processing ESI responses or loading certificates from intermediate certification centers. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service...

Squid 3.1.12.1 <= 3.1.x <= 3.1.23 / 3.2.0.4 <= 3.2.x / 3.3.x / 3.4.x / 3.5.x <= 3.5.28 / 4.x < 4.4 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (SQUID-2018:4)

According to its banner, the version of Squid running on the remote host is 3.1.x after or equal to 3.1.12.1 and prior or equal to 3.1.23, 3.2.x after or equal to 3.2.0.4, 3.3.x, 3.4.x, 3.5.x prior or equal to 3.5.28, or 4.x prior to 4.4. It is, therefore, affected by a cross-site scripting XSS...

Squid 3.2.0.10 <= 3.2.x / 3.3.x / 3.4.x / 3.5.x <= 3.5.28 / 4.x < 4.4 Denial of Service Vulnerability (SQUID-2018:5)

According to its banner, the version of Squid running on the remote host is 3.2.x after or equal to 3.2.0.10, 3.3.x, 3.4.x, 3.5.x prior or equal to 3.5.28, or 4.x prior to 4.4. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service DoS vulnerability in the SNMP component due to a memory leak in SNMP...