# HG changeset patch
# User Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com>
# Date 1407212157 -10800
# Node ID 5e310c6a8520603bca8bc4b40eaf4f074db47c0d
# Parent 46c7a724b487295257423a69478392cb01ce74e6
Issue #16037: HTTPMessage.readheaders() raises an HTTPException when more
than 100 headers are read.
Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen and Daniel Eriksson.
diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ MAXAMOUNT = 1048576
# maximal line length when calling readline().
_MAXLINE = 65536
+# maximum amount of headers accepted
+_MAXHEADERS = 100
+
+
class HTTPMessage(mimetools.Message):
def addheader(self, key, value):
@@ -271,6 +275,8 @@ class HTTPMessage(mimetools.Message):
elif self.seekable:
tell = self.fp.tell
while True:
+ if len(hlist) > _MAXHEADERS:
+ raise HTTPException("got more than %d headers" % _MAXHEADERS)
if tell:
try:
startofline = tell()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -262,6 +262,13 @@ class BasicTest(TestCase):
if resp.read() != "":
self.fail("Did not expect response from HEAD request")
+ def test_too_many_headers(self):
+ headers = '\r\n'.join('Header%d: foo' % i for i in xrange(200)) + '\r\n'
+ text = ('HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n' + headers)
+ s = FakeSocket(text)
+ r = httplib.HTTPResponse(s)
+ self.assertRaises(httplib.HTTPException, r.begin)
+
def test_send_file(self):
expected = 'GET /foo HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n' \
'Accept-Encoding: identity\r\nContent-Length:'