Cap TLS record length to RFC 8446 limit in ClientHello peeking#12638
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Cap TLS record length to RFC 8446 limit in ClientHello peeking#12638traefiker merged 3 commits intotraefik:v2.11from
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What does this PR do?
Motivation
A malicious client can send a crafted TLS record header with an inflated length field (up to 0xFFFF) and then stall, forcing Traefik to allocate an oversized buffer (~65 KiB instead of ~4 KiB) per connection. With enough concurrent connections against a memory-constrained instance, this can cause
resource strain. Capping at the RFC-mandated bound eliminates this amplification vector.
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