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squid -- Improper Protection of Alternate Path with CONNECT requests

Affected packages
squid < 3.5.6

Details

VuXML ID 150d1538-23fa-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5
Discovery 2015-07-06
Entry 2015-07-06
Modified 2015-07-17

Squid security advisory 2015:2 reports:

Squid configured with cache_peer and operating on explicit proxy traffic does not correctly handle CONNECT method peer responses.

The bug is important because it allows remote clients to bypass security in an explicit gateway proxy.

However, the bug is exploitable only if you have configured cache_peer to receive CONNECT requests.

References

CVE Name CVE-2015-5400
URL http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2015_2.txt