vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2018-1000027: Moderate: squid security and bug fix update (RHSA-2020:1068)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Feb 9, 2018 | Apr 1, 2020 | Jul 9, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 9, 2018
Added
Apr 1, 2020
Modified
Jul 9, 2025
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.
Solutions
no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-squidredhat-upgrade-squid-debuginforedhat-upgrade-squid-migration-scriptredhat-upgrade-squid-sysvinit
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