Welcome to squidGuard
SquidGuard is a URL redirector used to use blacklists with the
proxysoftware Squid. There
are two big advantages to squidguard: it is fast and it is free.
SquidGuard is published
under GNU Public License.
New: squidGuard version 1.5 beta available with XSS fix for download
Current stable version: 1.4
New Features:
- Authentication against mysql database.
- Configurable default behaviour.
- Further enhancements and bug fixes.
Some more details about features and bug fixes can be found
on the 1.4 feature page.
Available patches for version 1.4:
- Patch-20091015:
Fixes a buffer overflow problem and prevents squidGuard from going into emergency mode
when overlong URLs are encountered (they can be perfectly legal).
See the Readme file for
details about applying the patch.
- Patch-20091019:
Fixes two bypass problems with URLs having a length closed to the defined MAX_BUF value
(4096). See the Readme file for
details about applying the patch.
- Patch-20150201:
Fixes a XSS vulnerability in the blocking script squidGuard.cgi
See the Readme file for
details about applying the patch.
Available patches for version 1.3:
- Patch-20071117:
Fixes a problem with the progress bar creating too much output when
run in an cronjob or similar.
See the Readme file for
details about applying the patch.
- Patch-20080613:
Fixes a problem with trailing dots in domain names. Relevant when running
squid version 3.0 STABLE1 to at least STABLE5.
See the Readme file
and the advisory
SG-2008-06-13 for details about applying the patch.
- Patch-20080714:
Fixes two problems: The output of the progress bar went to squid which complained about that.
Secondly, when an URL was requested, that ended with "://" squidGuard crashed.
See the Readme file for
details about applying the patch.
- Patch-20091015:
Fixes a buffer overflow problem and prevents squidGuard from going into emergency mode
when overlong URLs are encountered (they can be perfectly legal).
See the Readme file for
details about applying the patch.
- Patch-20091019:
Fixes two bypass problems with URLs having a length closed to the defined MAX_BUF value
(4096). See the Readme file for
details about applying the patch.
- Patch-20150201:
Fixes a XSS vulnerability in the blocking script squidGuard.cgi
See the Readme file for
details about applying the patch.
Please find all information about installing and configuring
squidGuard in the Documentation section.
In work for version 1.5:
- LDAP authentication based on ip addresses.
- Syslog support.
- Further enhancements and bug fixes.
Note: After the release of 1.5 there will be an interims release with no
new features. It is necessary to tidy up the source code and this will
be done as soon as 1.5 is final.
For tips, hints and questions the squidGuard mailinglist is
available. This mailinglist is moderated.
If you want to subscribe to the squidGuard list please
use:
http://www.shalla.de/mailman/listinfo/squidguard
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