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MEDIUM: h1: strictly verify quoting in chunk extensions
As reported by Ben Kallus in the following thread:

   https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg46471.html

there exist some agents which mistakenly accept CRLF inside quoted
chunk extensions, making it possible to fool them by injecting one
extra chunk they won't see for example, or making them miss the end
of the body depending on how it's done. Haproxy, like most other
agents nowadays, doesn't care at all about chunk extensions and just
drops them, in agreement with the spec.

However, as discussed, since chunk extensions are basically never used
except for attacks, and that the cost of just matching quote pairs and
checking backslashed quotes is escape consistency remains relatively
low, it can make sense to add such a check to abort the message parsing
when this situation is encountered. Note that it has to be done at two
places, because there is a fast path and a slow path for chunk parsing.

Also note that it *will* cause transfers using improperly formatted chunk
extensions to fail, but since these are really not used, and that the
likelihood of them being used but improperly quoted certainly is much
lower than the risk of crossing a broken parser on the client's request
path or on the server's response path, we consider the risk as
acceptable. The test is not subject to the configurable parser exceptions
and it's very unlikely that it will ever be needed.

Since this is done in 3.4 which will be LTS, this patch will have to be
backported to 3.3 so that any unlikely trouble gets a chance to be
detected before users upgrade to 3.4.

Thanks to Ben for the discussion, and to Rajat Raghav for sparking it
in the first place even though the original report was mistaken.

Cc: Ben Kallus <benjamin.p.kallus.gr@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: Rajat Raghav <xclow3n@gmail.com>
Cc: Christopher Faulet <cfaulet@haproxy.com>
2026-01-28 18:54:23 +01:00
.github CI: github: fix vtest.yml with "not quictls" 2026-01-19 13:22:10 +01:00
addons BUG/MINOR: promex: Detach promex from the server on error dump its metrics dump 2026-01-23 11:40:54 +01:00
admin MEDIUM: systemd: implement directory loading 2026-01-16 09:55:33 +01:00
dev CLEANUP: use the automatic alignment feature 2025-12-09 17:14:58 +01:00
doc DOC: config: mention that idle connection sharing is per thread-group 2026-01-28 17:18:50 +01:00
examples MINOR: mailers: warn if mailers are configured but not actually used 2025-06-27 16:41:18 +02:00
include MEDIUM: h1: strictly verify quoting in chunk extensions 2026-01-28 18:54:23 +01:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: ssl: fix generate-certificates w/ LibreSSL 2026-01-21 16:50:16 +01:00
scripts SCRIPTS: build: enable symbols in AWS-LC builds 2026-01-22 15:25:24 +01:00
src MEDIUM: h1: strictly verify quoting in chunk extensions 2026-01-28 18:54:23 +01:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-3 2025-10-09 14:06:48 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES DOC: clarify the experimental status for certain features 2025-10-17 18:41:13 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev3 2026-01-22 19:02:54 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2025-11-26 16:11:47 +01:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile REORG: cfgparse: move peers parsing to cfgparse-peers.c 2026-01-20 17:17:37 +01:00
README.md DOC: change the link to the FreeBSD CI in README.md 2024-06-03 15:21:29 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev3 2026-01-22 19:02:54 +01:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev3 2026-01-22 19:02:54 +01:00

HAProxy

alpine/musl AWS-LC openssl no-deprecated Illumos NetBSD FreeBSD VTest

HAProxy logo

HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:

  • INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  • BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  • LICENSE for the project's license
  • CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.