Re: squid 1.NOVM.22 bug

From: <squid-users-list@dont-contact.us>
Date: 21 Jul 1998 16:12:09 +0100

In article <6ovob2$se4$1@ananke.salford.ac.uk>,
Duane Wessels <wessels@ircache.net> wrote:
>squid-users-list@salford.ac.uk writes:
>> This is really annoying as I can't really justify using squid at
>>this site if it can be brought down so easily. Hope someone has an
>>idea why this is happending.
>> This under a newly cvsupped FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE.
>
>Are you requesting the same URL on every connection? If so...
>try this patch:

Cheers. That's fixed it. Shouldn't this be the standard size for
this variable? What's the point of saving one byte per connection
if every squid in the world (except mine :-) is now vulnerable to
this DOS?

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Received on Tue Jul 21 1998 - 08:14:29 MDT

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