The package github.com/pires/go-proxyproto before 0.5.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the parseVersion1() function. The reader in this package is a default bufio.Reader wrapping a net.Conn. It will read from the connection until it finds a newline. Since no limits are implemented in the code, a deliberately malformed V1 header could be used to exhaust memory in a server process using this code - and create a DoS. This can be exploited by sending a stream starting with PROXY and continuing to send data (which does not contain a newline) until the target stops acknowledging. The risk here is small, because only trusted sources should be allowed to send proxy protocol headers.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: snyk
Published: 2021-03-08T04:45:23.830953Z
Updated: 2024-09-17T01:31:07.953Z
Reserved: 2021-01-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-23351
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-03-08T05:15:12.593
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:51:33.350
Link: CVE-2021-23351
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