Summary
The remote host is missing an update to squid
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:034.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:034
Insight
Due to an internal error Squid is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing specially crafted requests. This problem allows any client to perform a denial of service attack on the Squid service (CVE-2009-0478).
The updated packages have been patched to adress this.
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-0478 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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