Re: [squid-users] automatic removing core files

From: fedorischev <fedorischev_at_bsu.edu.ru>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:37:31 +0400

В сообщении от Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:02:52 Jeff Pang написал(а):
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:14 PM, fedorischev <fedorischev_at_bsu.edu.ru> wrote:
> > parseHttpRequest: Requestheader contains NULL characters.
>
> Seems an abnormal request header.

I already found a cause of the core dumps. Maybe it's a password brutforcer in
our network that exploit our squid basic authenticator. This force squid to
say "too many queued basicauthenticator requests" and generate a coredump.

> > Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE21 - works fine for us.
> That's a really old version, you should be considering to upgrade it
> to the latest 2.7 or 3.x release.

3.x not usable in production for us because of bug 2305
http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2305

Ok, thanks for all. The topic is closed.

WBR. Igor
Received on Tue Apr 20 2010 - 11:37:35 MDT

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