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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 -- Please be using Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.4
