Re: [squid-users] Bug 2973 - Memory leak when handling pathless http requests

Richard Wall wrote:
> I just filed a new bug and wondered if anyone here had seen a similar
> problem or had any suggestions about how to track down the possible
> memory leak.
>
> * http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2973
>
> There seems to be quite a bad memory leak in the way Squid handles HTTP
> requests which do not contain a path. For example, one of our customers Squid
> servers, deployed in transparent mode, is receiving many thousands of such
> requests, presumably some sort of DOS attack on the named web server.

Well, yes could have uncovered a successful DoS attack against Squid. If
you are right this may be a very serious bug, or maybe just a rarely
working but fatal attack. I've pinged Henrik on IRC.

If you have any further details or replication on this please use the
squid-bugs_at_squid-cache.org email address instead of the public bugzilla.
At least until we have had more of a chance to verify the risk level and
find a fix.

Thank you.

Amos

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