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Willy Tarreau 3b69886f7d BUG/MAJOR: htx: fix missing header name length check in htx_add_header/trailer
Ori Hollander of JFrog Security reported that htx_add_header() and
htx_add_trailer() were missing a length check on the header name. While
this does not allow to overwrite any memory area, it results in bits of
the header name length to slip into the header value length and may
result in forging certain header names on the input. The sad thing here
is that a FIXME comment was present suggesting to add the required length
checks :-(

The injected headers are visible to the HTTP internals and to the config
rules, so haproxy will generally stay synchronized with the server. But
there is one exception which is the content-length header field, because
it is already deduplicated on the input, but before being indexed. As
such, injecting a content-length header after the deduplication stage
may be abused to present a different, shorter one on the other side and
help build a request smuggling attack, or even maybe a response splitting
attack. CVE-2021-40346 was assigned to this problem.

As a mitigation measure, it is sufficient to verify that no more than
one such header is present in any message, which is normally the case
thanks to the duplicate checks:

   http-request  deny if { req.hdr_cnt(content-length) gt 1 }
   http-response deny if { res.hdr_cnt(content-length) gt 1 }

This must be backported to all HTX-enabled versions, hence as far as 2.0.
In 2.3 and earlier, the functions are in src/htx.c instead.

Many thanks to Ori for his work and his responsible report!
2021-09-03 16:15:29 +02:00
.github CI: Github Actions: temporarily disable BoringSSL builds 2021-09-02 17:32:43 +02:00
addons BUILD: ot: add argument for default value to vars_get_by_name() 2021-09-03 14:21:40 +02:00
admin MINOR: systemd: remove the ExecStartPre line in the unit file 2021-08-20 23:36:45 +02:00
dev CLEANUP: dev/flags: remove useless test in the stdin number parser 2021-04-03 15:29:10 +02:00
doc [RELEASE] Released version 2.5-dev6 2021-09-03 15:19:56 +02:00
examples MEDIUM: proxy: remove long-broken 'option http_proxy' 2021-07-18 19:35:32 +02:00
include BUG/MAJOR: htx: fix missing header name length check in htx_add_header/trailer 2021-09-03 16:15:29 +02:00
reg-tests MINOR: vars: make the vars() sample fetch function support a default value 2021-09-03 12:08:54 +02:00
scripts BUILD: adopt script/build-ssl.sh for OpenSSL-3.0.0beta2 2021-08-25 05:16:00 +02:00
src CLEANUP: htx: remove comments about "must be < 256 MB" 2021-09-03 16:15:29 +02:00
tests CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: introduce scripts/build-vtest.sh for installing VTest 2021-05-18 10:48:30 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore DOC: lua-api: Add documentation about lua filters 2021-08-15 20:56:44 +02:00
.travis.yml CI: travis-ci: temporarily disable arm64 builds 2021-08-07 07:28:15 +02:00
BRANCHES DOC: fix some spelling issues over multiple files 2021-01-08 14:53:47 +01:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 2.5-dev6 2021-09-03 15:19:56 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
INSTALL CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS CONTRIB: move spoa_example out of the tree 2021-04-21 09:39:06 +02:00
Makefile BUILD: globally enable -Wundef 2021-08-30 10:16:30 +02:00
README DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
ROADMAP DOC: update the outdated ROADMAP file 2019-06-15 21:59:54 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 2.5-dev6 2021-09-03 15:19:56 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.5-dev6 2021-09-03 15:19:56 +02:00

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for
ease of use.

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 :

  - doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
  - doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
  - doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
  - doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
  - doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
  - doc/management.txt for the management guide
  - doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
  - doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
  - doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
  - doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)