CVE-2018-1172

Summary

CVECVE-2018-1172
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-16 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:38:00 UTC
DescriptionThis vulnerability allows remote attackers to deny service on vulnerable installations of The Squid Software Foundation Squid 3.5.27-20180318. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within ClientRequestContext::sslBumpAccessCheck(). A crafted request can trigger the dereference of a null pointer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to create a denial-of-service condition to users of the system. Was ZDI-CAN-6088.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Squid-cache Squid 3.5.27 All All All
Application Squid-cache Squid 3.5.27 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ZDI-18-309 | Zero Day Initiative MISC zerodayinitiative.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2018_3.txt CONFIRM www.squid-cache.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296079 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 15.5.0 Missing (CPUOCT2019)
  • 500657 Alpine Linux Security Update for squid
  • 504426 Alpine Linux Security Update for squid
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