Re: CVE-2009-0801

From: Kinkie <gkinkie_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:55:49 +0100

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> Basically: Host header forgery meets interception.
>
> What ideas/patches do we have floating around to solve it? I understand it's
> an old problem.
>
> I'm throwing together a patch to verify the received dst IP is in the rDNS
> for the Host: domain. But that's only raising the bar of difficulty, not
> closing the hole.

It would be interesting to know what the commercial solutions which
claim to be unaffected do to address the issue. Is there any
information available on that?

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    /kinkie
Received on Tue Mar 17 2009 - 13:55:57 MDT

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