PT-2018-19260 · Squid · Squid

Published 2018-01-24 · Updated 2018-01-24

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Squid (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to incorrect pointer handling in Squid, making it vulnerable to a denial of service attack when processing ESI responses or downloading intermediate CA certificates. A remote server or client can trigger this denial of service for all clients accessing the Squid service by delivering certain ESI response syntax or HTTP requests in conjunction with specific trusted server responses.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

MGASA-2018-0095

Affected Products

Squid

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0095 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0095.html · Security Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22440 · Note
• http://squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2018_1.txt · Note
• http://squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2018_2.txt · Note