CVE-2018-1172 (NVD)

2018-05-16

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
Type NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-309
http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2018_3.txt