From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lumir Balhar <lbalhar@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 07:56:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] 00368-CVE-2021-3737.patch
00368 #
CVE-2021-3737: http client infinite line reading (DoS) after a HTTP 100 Continue
Fixes http.client potential denial of service where it could get stuck reading
lines from a malicious server after a 100 Continue response.
Backported from Python 3.
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
Co-authored-by: Gen Xu <xgbarry@gmail.com>
---
Lib/httplib.py | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
Lib/test/test_httplib.py | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index a63677477d5..f9a27619e62 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -365,6 +365,25 @@ class HTTPMessage(mimetools.Message):
# It's not a header line; skip it and try the next line.
self.status = 'Non-header line where header expected'
+
+def _read_headers(fp):
+ """Reads potential header lines into a list from a file pointer.
+ Length of line is limited by _MAXLINE, and number of
+ headers is limited by _MAXHEADERS.
+ """
+ headers = []
+ while True:
+ line = fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)
+ if len(line) > _MAXLINE:
+ raise LineTooLong("header line")
+ headers.append(line)
+ if len(headers) > _MAXHEADERS:
+ raise HTTPException("got more than %d headers" % _MAXHEADERS)
+ if line in (b'\r\n', b'\n', b''):
+ break
+ return headers
+
+
class HTTPResponse:
# strict: If true, raise BadStatusLine if the status line can't be
@@ -453,15 +472,10 @@ class HTTPResponse:
if status != CONTINUE:
break
# skip the header from the 100 response
- while True:
- skip = self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)
- if len(skip) > _MAXLINE:
- raise LineTooLong("header line")
- skip = skip.strip()
- if not skip:
- break
- if self.debuglevel > 0:
- print "header:", skip
+ skipped_headers = _read_headers(self.fp)
+ if self.debuglevel > 0:
+ print("headers:", skipped_headers)
+ del skipped_headers
self.status = status
self.reason = reason.strip()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index b5fec9aa1ec..d05c0fc28d2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -700,6 +700,14 @@ class BasicTest(TestCase):
resp = httplib.HTTPResponse(FakeSocket(body))
self.assertRaises(httplib.LineTooLong, resp.begin)
+ def test_overflowing_header_limit_after_100(self):
+ body = (
+ 'HTTP/1.1 100 OK\r\n'
+ 'r\n' * 32768
+ )
+ resp = httplib.HTTPResponse(FakeSocket(body))
+ self.assertRaises(httplib.HTTPException, resp.begin)
+
def test_overflowing_chunked_line(self):
body = (
'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'