Vulnerability CVE-2018-1000027


Published: 2018-02-09   Modified: 2018-02-10

Description:
The Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy version prior to version 4.0.23 contains a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in HTTP Response X-Forwarded-For header processing that can result in Denial of Service to all clients of the proxy. This attack appear to be exploitable via Remote HTTP server responding with an X-Forwarded-For header to certain types of HTTP request. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 4.0.23 and later.

Type:

CWE-476

(NULL Pointer Dereference)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Squid-cache -> Squid 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2018_2.txt
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/SQUID-2018_2.patch
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/SQUID-2018_2.patch
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/129/files
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00001.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00002.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3557-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4059-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4122

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