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Category: Mandriva Local Security Checks Risk factor: Medium Added: 11 Mar 2010
Synopsis:

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory MDVSA-2010:060 (squid).

Description:

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in squid: The htcpHandleTstRequest function in htcp.c in Squid 2.x and 3.0 through 3.0.STABLE23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted packets to the HTCP port, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2010-0639). Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0
customers.
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

See also:

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:060

Solution:

Apply the newest security patches from Mandriva.

Risk factor:

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 5.0
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)