[squid-users] Squid 3.1.8 is available

The Squid HTTP Proxy team is very pleased to announce the
availability of the Squid-3.1.8 release!

This release brings several very important bug fixes, security updates
and some HTTP/1.1 improvements into 3.1.

On the security front we have three major additions:

  * Fixes for the request processing vulnerability tagged SQUID-2010:3.
    http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2010_3.txt

  * A hardening of the DNS client against packet queueing approaches
used to enable attacks. This completes the protection against attacks
published by Yamaguchi late in 2009.

  * An HTTP request-line parser hardened against several categories of
request attack. This greatly increasing the speed of detection and
reducing resources used to detect these categories of attack.

Several outstanding major bugs have also been identified and fixed:

   - Bug 3020: Segmentation fault: nameservers[vc->ns].vc = NULL
   - Bug 3005,2972: Locate LTDL headers correctly (again)
   - Bug 2872: leaking file descriptors
   - Bug 2583: pure virtual method called

As you can see yet another attempt to get over the libtool / libltdl
build issues has been made. If you are building Squid with a libtool 1.x
version please try to do so first on these bundles without using any of
the hacks and workarounds. For any libltdl or LoadableModules problems
in this package please mention in the bug 2972 bugzilla report along
with your libtool/libltdl versions.

Due to the security enhancements all users of Squid-3 are urged to
upgrade to this release as soon as possible.

Please refer to the release notes at
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/RELEASENOTES.html
if and when you are ready to make the switch to Squid-3.1

This new release can be downloaded from our HTTP or FTP servers

       http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/
       ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid/
       ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/archive/3.1/

or the mirrors. For a list of mirror sites see

       http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/http-mirrors.dyn
       http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/mirrors.dyn

If you encounter any issues with this release please file a bug report.
       http://bugs.squid-cache.org/

Amos Jeffries
Received on Sat Sep 04 2010 - 12:48:27 MDT