[squid-users] Squid 100% CPU and possible attack

[Eliezer Croitoru]

The simplest way is to use fail2ban.
What OS are you using?
it is possible an attack but it's not 100%.
What you can do is to also disable access using the proxy to this 
destination IP and address.
100% CPU in many cases is not something odd but you can try fail2ban 
with a special rule to block this client in the iptables of the machine 
(if this is a linux..)

Eliezer

On 23/10/2015 00:43, Job wrote:
> Hello,
>
> sometimes, for about half an hour, tour Squid becomes unstable and, by typing "top -s", Squid is taking the 100% of the CPU.
>
> In Squid's access.log, i see lots of entry like this:
>
> "Thu";"Oct";"22";"11:45:17";"2015";"21328";"192.168.1.250";"TCP_MISS/000";"0";"GET";"http://192.168.1.254:8080/cgi-bin/a2/out.cgi";"-";"DIRECT/192.168.1.254";"-"
> "Thu";"Oct";"22";"11:45:18";"2015";"19153";"192.168.1.250";"TCP_MISS/000";"0";"GET";"http://192.168.1.254:8080/cgi-bin/a2/out.cgi";"-";"DIRECT/192.168.1.254";"-"
> "Thu";"Oct";"22";"11:45:18";"2015";"20346";"192.168.1.250";"TCP_MISS/000";"0";"GET";"http://192.168.1.254:8080/cgi-bin/a2/out.cgi";"-";"DIRECT/192.168.1.254";"-"
> "Thu";"Oct";"22";"11:45:21";"2015";"20391";"192.168.1.250";"TCP_MISS/000";"0";"GET";"http://192.168.1.254:8080/cgi-bin/a2/out.cgi";"-";"DIRECT/192.168.1.254";"-"
> "Thu";"Oct";"22";"11:45:21";"2015";"19142";"192.168.1.250";"TCP_MISS/000";"0";"GET";"http://192.168.1.254:8080/cgi-bin/a2/out.cgi";"-";"DIRECT/192.168.1.254";"-"
> "Thu";"Oct";"22";"11:45:22";"2015";"19075";"192.168.1.250";"TCP_MISS/000";"0";"GET";"http://192.168.1.254:8080/cgi-bin/a2/out.cgi";"-";"DIRECT/192.168.1.254";"-"
>
> There seem be a possible attack/exploit from an internal machine? It is the 192.168.1.250 in the example.
>
> Is there a patch or something to not spread up Squid to the 100% cpu limit for these "Attacks"?
>
> Thank you!
> Francesco
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