Bug 146779

Summary:	CAN-2005-0211 Buffer overflow in WCCP recvfrom() call
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	squid	Assignee:	Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	jfeeney
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-02-01 16:37:10 UTC

*** This bug has been split off bug 146777 ***

------- Original comment by Josh Bressers (Security Response Team) on 2005.02.01
11:22 -------

The length argument of the WCCP recvfrom() call is larger than it should be. An
attacker may send a larger-than-normal WCCP packet and overflow a buffer.

The upstream patch for this issue can be found here:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/squid-2.5.STABLE7-wccp_buffer_overflow.patch

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-15 09:37:50 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-060.html