CVE-2018-1000027

Publication date 29 January 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
squid3 19.04 disco Not in release
18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 3.5.23-5ubuntu2
17.10 artful
Fixed 3.5.23-5ubuntu1.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.5
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 3.3.8-1ubuntu6.11

Patch details

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Package Patch details
squid3

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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