Tim Düsterhus found using afl-fuzz that some parts of the HPACK decoder
use incorrect bounds checking which do not catch negative values after
a type cast. The first culprit is hpack_valid_idx() which takes a signed
int and is fed with an unsigned one, but a few others are affected as
well due to being designed to work with an uint16_t as in the table
header, thus not being able to detect the high offset bits, though they
are not exposed if hpack_valid_idx() is fixed.
The impact is that the HPACK decoder can be crashed by an out-of-bounds
read. The only work-around without this patch is to disable H2 in the
configuration.
CVE-2018-14645 was assigned to this bug.
This patch addresses all of these issues at once. It must be backported
to 1.8.
In hpack_dht_make_room(), we try to fulfill this rule form RFC7541#4.4 :
"It is not an error to attempt to add an entry that is larger than the
maximum size; an attempt to add an entry larger than the maximum size
causes the table to be emptied of all existing entries and results in
an empty table."
Unfortunately it is not consistent with the way it's used in
hpack_dht_insert() as this last one will consider a success as a
confirmation it can copy the header into the table, and a failure as
an indexing error. This results in the two following issues :
- if a client sends too large a header into an empty table, this
header may overflow the table. Fortunately, most clients send
small headers like :authority first, and never mark headers that
don't fit into the table as indexable since it is counter-productive ;
- if a client sends too large a header into a populated table, the
operation fails after the table is totally flushed and the request
is not processed.
This patch fixes the two issues at once :
- a header not fitting into an empty table is always a sign that it
will never fit ;
- not fitting into the table is not an error
Thanks to Yves Lafon for reporting detailed traces demonstrating this
issue. This fix must be backported to 1.8.
If the hpack decoder sees an invalid header index, it emits value
"### ERR ###" that was used during debugging instead of rejecting the
block. This is harmless, and was detected by h2spec.
To backport to 1.8.
This code deals with header insertion, retrieval and eviction, as well
as with dynamic header table defragmentation. It is functional for use
as a decoder and was heavily tested in this context. There's still some
room for optimization (eg: the defragmentation code currently does it
in place using a memcpy).
Also for now the dynamic header table is allocated using malloc() while
a pool needs to be created instead.
This code was mostly imported from https://github.com/wtarreau/http2-exp
with "hpack_" prepended in front of most names to avoid risks of conflicts.
Some small cleanups and renamings were applied during the import. This
version must be considered more recent.
Some HPACK error codes were placed here (HPACK_ERR_*), not exactly because
they're needed by the decoder but they'll be needed by all callers. Maybe
a different location should be found.
