Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2004-0918 to the following vulnerability: The asn_parse_header function (asn1.c) in the SNMP module for Squid Web Proxy Cache before 2.4.STABLE7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server restart) via certain SNMP packets with negative length fields that causes a memory allocation error. Refences: http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=152&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=false http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000923 http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-15.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-591.html ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.16/SCOSA-2005.16.txt http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109913064629327&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11385 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17688 It has been discovered that this flaw was fixed in the Squid 2.x branch but was never added to the Squid 3.x branch. http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2008_1.txt
It should be noted that this fix is only missing in Fedora 9. The version of Squid shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5 are patched.
squid-3.0.STABLE7-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
This issue was addressed in: Red Hat Enterprise Linux: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-591.html Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-6045