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GHSA-fqh4-rh59-xhvf

github.com/pires/go-proxyproto denial of service vulnerability

Quick fix

GHSA-fqh4-rh59-xhvf — github.com/pires/go-proxyproto: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

go get github.com/pires/go-proxyproto@v0.5.0

Details

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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Affected packages

Go/github.com/pires/go-proxyproto
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.5.0
Fixgo get github.com/pires/go-proxyproto@v0.5.0

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