DEBIAN-CVE-2021-23351

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-23351
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-23351.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-23351
Upstream
Published
2021-03-08T05:15:12Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:19Z
Severity
  • 4.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11

golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto

Package

Name
golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12

golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto

Package

Name
golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13

golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto

Package

Name
golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14

golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto

Package

Name
golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/golang-github-pires-go-proxyproto?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.4.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}