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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cve-icon 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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-08T05:15:12.593

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:30:52.363

Link: CVE-2021-23351

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