Is my system vulnerable to the `rm -fr /*` bug in squid?

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 pre-beta
• Not introduced into RHEL 6.7 or any other general availability (GA) version of RHEL
• squid

Issue

• Is my system vulnerable to the rm -fr /* bug in squid?

Resolution

At the time of this writing, RHEL 6.7 is still pre-beta and this bug was found in an UNRELEASED update to squid.

• No, customer systems are not affected by this issue as it was never introduced into Red Hat Enterprise LInux; this bug was caught by Red Hat's Quality Engineering team prior to any release.
• For more information refer to This content is not included.BZ 1202858 and Restarting squid results in all files deleted in pre-beta release of RHEL.

Root Cause

• This issue was introduced as an improper fix to This content is not included.BZ 1102343, where squids process directory was attempting to be removed.

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