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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2006.0111 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux][Debian] New adzapper packages fix denial of service 10 February 2006 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: adzapper Publisher: Debian Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Windows Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Impact: Denial of Service Access: Remote/Unauthenticated CVE Names: CVE-2006-0046 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-966 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 966-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 9th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : adzapper Vulnerability : denial of service Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-0046 Debian Bug : 350308 Thomas Reifferscheid discovered that adzapper, a proxy advertisement zapper add-on, when installed as plugin in squid, the Internet object cache, can consume a lot of CPU resources and hence cause a denial of service on the proxy host. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain an adzapper package. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 20050316-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 20060115-1. We recommend that you upgrade your adzapper package. Upgrade Instructions - - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/adzapper/adzapper_20050316-1sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 593 46351acfe636a0fa3bb74353708ba841 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/adzapper/adzapper_20050316-1sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5525 0fc182315da374cac8c370d536caf1de http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/adzapper/adzapper_20050316.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 49003 c5e85d7664b873deea48f8ad16a5f68e Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/adzapper/adzapper_20050316-1sarge1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 53932 1e3b19a4b4a8fc8ad9b681829de0d9f2 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD6ud4W5ql+IAeqTIRAtcSAKCpzaEt3ffZE9zcVLR9RR6faXvE1wCZAW0P pKA2ZaWF7Xk2m9Eh1MJAyOw= =GOYE - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. 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