Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Firefly Squid

In Tokama, Japan, you can watch the firefly squid catch and eat them in various ways: "It's great to eat hotaruika around when the seasons change, which is when people tend to get sick," said Ryoji Tanaka, an executive at the Toyama prefectural federation of fishing cooperatives. "In addition to...

Friday Squid Blogging: Sake Decanters Made of Dried Squid

This is interesting. 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...

Squid < 3.5.18 Host Header Handling Same-Origin Protection / Content Filtering Bypass (SQUID-2016:8)

According to its banner, the version of Squid running on the remote host is prior to 3.5.18. It is, therefore, potentially affected by a Host header same-origin filtering bypass vulnerability. A remote attacker could exploit this issue to poison the cache by forcing a Host header value past...

Friday Squid Blogging: Market Squid in Alaskan Waters

Rising sea temperatures is causing market squid to move north into Alaskan waters. 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: Giant Squid Stealing Food from Each Other

An interesting hunting strategy: Off of northern Spain, giant squid often feed on schools of fish called blue whiting. The schools swim 400 meters or less below the surface, while the squid prefer to hang out around a mile deep. The squid must ascend to hunt, probably seizing fish from below with...

Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered in Australia

A new species of pygmy squid was discovered in Western Australia. It's pretty cute. 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: Interesting Interview

Here's an hour-long audio interview with squid scientist Sarah McAnulty. 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...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : squid (SUSE-SU-2018:0636-1)

This update for squid fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-1000024: DoS fix caused by incorrect pointer handling when processing ESI responses. This affects the default custom esiparser bsc1077003. - CVE-2018-1000027: DoS fix caused by incorrect pointer handing whien...

openSUSE Security Update : squid (openSUSE-2018-238)

This update for squid fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-1000024: DoS fix caused by incorrect pointer handling when processing ESI responses. This affects the default custom esiparser bsc1077003. - CVE-2018-1000027: DoS fix caused by incorrect pointer handing whien...

SUSE-SU-2018:0636-1 Security update for squid

This update for squid fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-1000024: DoS fix caused by incorrect pointer handling when processing ESI responses. This affects the default custom esiparser bsc1077003. - CVE-2018-1000027: DoS fix caused by incorrect pointer handing whien...

Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for Humboldt Squid with Electronic Bait

Video and short commentary. 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...

Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-05766 )

Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy is an open source HTTP caching proxy software . A security vulnerability exists in the handling of HTTP Response X-Forwarded-For packet headers in versions of Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy prior to 4.0.23. An attacker could...

Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy Denial of Service Vulnerability

Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy is an open source HTTP caching proxy software . A security vulnerability exists in the handling of ESI responses in Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy versions 3.0 through 3.5.27 and 4.0 through 4.0.22. An attacker can exploit thi...

FreeBSD : squid -- Vulnerable to Denial of Service attack (d5b6d151-1887-11e8-94f7-9c5c8e75236a)

Louis Dion-Marcil reports : Due to incorrect pointer handling Squid is vulnerable to denial of service attack when processing ESI responses. This problem allows a remote server delivering certain ESI response syntax to trigger a denial of service for all clients accessing the Squid service. Due t...

Friday Squid Blogging: The Symbiotic Relationship Between the Bobtail Squid and a Particular Microbe

This is the story of the Hawaiian bobtail squid and Vibrio fischeri. 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...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1267-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Pin

There's a squid pin on Kickstarter. 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...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy version 3.0 to 3.5.27, 4.0 to 4.0.22 contains a Incorrect Pointer Handling vulnerability in ESI Response Processing that can result in Denial of Service for all clients using the proxy.. This attack appear to be exploitable via Remote server...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-1000024

The Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy version 3.0 to 3.5.27, 4.0 to 4.0.22 contains a Incorrect Pointer Handling vulnerability in ESI Response Processing that can result in Denial of Service for all clients using the proxy.. This attack appear to be exploitable via Remote server...

CVE-2018-1000024

The Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy version 3.0 to 3.5.27, 4.0 to 4.0.22 contains a Incorrect Pointer Handling vulnerability in ESI Response Processing that can result in Denial of Service for all clients using the proxy.. This attack appear to be exploitable via Remote server...