squid — security advisory
This 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.
- Products
- squid
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1172
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
This 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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1172
squid
Fixed versions: 4.1-1
squid
Fixed versions: 4.1-1
squid
Fixed versions: 4.1-1
Complete source record
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