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net/http: ReadRequest can stack overflow due to recursion with very large headers #45710

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katiehockman opened this issue Apr 22, 2021 · 10 comments · Fixed by containerd/containerd#5461
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katiehockman commented Apr 22, 2021

ReadRequest and ReadResponse in net/http can hit an unrecoverable panic when reading a very large header (over 7MB on 64-bit architectures, or over 4MB on 32-bit ones). Transport and Client are vulnerable and the program can be made to crash by a malicious server. Server is not vulnerable by default, but can be if the default max header of 1MB is overridden by setting Server.MaxHeaderBytes to a higher value, in which case the program can be made to crash by a malicious client.

This also affects golang.org/x/net/http2/h2c and HeaderValuesContainsToken in golang.org/x/net/http/httpguts, and is fixed in golang.org/x/[email protected].

This is CVE-2021-31525.

According to the new security policy (#44918), this will be fixed as a PUBLIC track issue.

Credit to Guido Vranken who reported the crash as part of the Ethereum 2.0 bounty program.

/cc @golang/security

@katiehockman katiehockman added this to the Go1.17 milestone Apr 22, 2021
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katiehockman commented Apr 22, 2021

@gopherbot please consider this for backport to 1.16.4 and 1.15.12, it's a security issue.

/cc @golang/release FYI

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Backport issue(s) opened: #45711 (for 1.15), #45712 (for 1.16).

Remember to create the cherry-pick CL(s) as soon as the patch is submitted to master, according to https://golang.org/wiki/MinorReleases.

@odeke-em odeke-em changed the title http: ReadRequest can stack overflow net/http: ReadRequest can stack overflow due to recursion with very large headers Apr 23, 2021
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Change https://golang.org/cl/313069 mentions this issue: httpguts: remove recursion for HeaderValuesContainsToken

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Change https://golang.org/cl/314596 mentions this issue: std: update golang.org/x/net to 20210428140749-89ef3d95e781

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Change https://golang.org/cl/314649 mentions this issue: [internal-branch.go1.16-vendor

@dmitshur dmitshur added the NeedsFix The path to resolution is known, but the work has not been done. label Apr 28, 2021
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Change https://golang.org/cl/314650 mentions this issue: [release-branch.go1.15] http/httpguts: remove recursion in HeaderValuesContainsToken

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dmitshur commented Apr 28, 2021

The x/net fix still needs to be pulled into the main repo for Go 1.17 (which can be done individually like in CL 314596 or together with more x/net updates as part of #36905), reopening for that and adding release-blocker so it's not missed.

@dmitshur dmitshur reopened this Apr 28, 2021
gopherbot pushed a commit to golang/net that referenced this issue Apr 28, 2021
…aderValuesContainsToken

Previously, httpguts.HeaderValuesContainsToken called a
function which could recurse to the point of a stack
overflow when given a very large header (~10MB).

Credit to Guido Vranken who reported the crash as
part of the Ethereum 2.0 bounty program.

Fixes CVE-2021-31525

Updates golang/go#45710
Updates golang/go#45712

Change-Id: I2c54ce3b2acf1c5efdea66db0595b93a3f5ae5f3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/net/+/313069
Trust: Katie Hockman <[email protected]>
Run-TryBot: Katie Hockman <[email protected]>
TryBot-Result: Go Bot <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Filippo Valsorda <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Roland Shoemaker <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 89ef3d9)
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/net/+/314649
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <[email protected]>
gopherbot pushed a commit to golang/net that referenced this issue Apr 28, 2021
…esContainsToken

Previously, httpguts.HeaderValuesContainsToken called a
function which could recurse to the point of a stack
overflow when given a very large header (~10MB).

Credit to Guido Vranken who reported the crash as
part of the Ethereum 2.0 bounty program.

Fixes CVE-2021-31525

Updates golang/go#45710
Updates golang/go#45711

Change-Id: I2c54ce3b2acf1c5efdea66db0595b93a3f5ae5f3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/net/+/313069
Trust: Katie Hockman <[email protected]>
Run-TryBot: Katie Hockman <[email protected]>
TryBot-Result: Go Bot <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Filippo Valsorda <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Roland Shoemaker <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 89ef3d9)
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/net/+/314650
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <[email protected]>
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dmitshur commented May 6, 2021

The x/net fix has been pulled into the main repo for Go 1.17 as part of CL 316251. Closing as fixed.

@dmitshur dmitshur closed this as completed May 6, 2021
AkihiroSuda pushed a commit to containerd/containerd that referenced this issue May 7, 2021
fix [#45710](golang/go#45710) and CVE-2021-31525.

Signed-off-by: Jintao Zhang <[email protected]>
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carnil commented May 7, 2021

This issue appears to have assigned CVE-2021-31525 according to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958341

buildroot-auto-update pushed a commit to buildroot/buildroot that referenced this issue May 8, 2021
Fixes the following security issues:

- CVE-2021-31525: ReadRequest and ReadResponse in net/http can hit an
  unrecoverable panic when reading a very large header (over 7MB on 64-bit
  architectures, or over 4MB on 32-bit ones).  Transport and Client are
  vulnerable and the program can be made to crash by a malicious server.
  Server is not vulnerable by default, but can be if the default max header
  of 1MB is overridden by setting Server.MaxHeaderBytes to a higher value,
  in which case the program can be made to crash by a malicious client.

  golang/go#45710

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <[email protected]>
buildroot-auto-update pushed a commit to buildroot/buildroot that referenced this issue May 8, 2021
Fixes the following security issues:

- CVE-2021-31525: ReadRequest and ReadResponse in net/http can hit an
  unrecoverable panic when reading a very large header (over 7MB on 64-bit
  architectures, or over 4MB on 32-bit ones).  Transport and Client are
  vulnerable and the program can be made to crash by a malicious server.
  Server is not vulnerable by default, but can be if the default max header
  of 1MB is overridden by setting Server.MaxHeaderBytes to a higher value,
  in which case the program can be made to crash by a malicious client.

  golang/go#45710

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <[email protected]>
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katiehockman commented May 10, 2021

Yes, it has been assigned CVE-2021-31525.

I've gone ahead and update the original comment with the content of the announcement, which had the full details.

dmcgowan pushed a commit to dmcgowan/containerd that referenced this issue May 10, 2021
fix [#45710](golang/go#45710) and CVE-2021-31525.

Signed-off-by: Jintao Zhang <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 79d800b)
Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <[email protected]>
olix0r added a commit to linkerd/linkerd2 that referenced this issue May 24, 2021
Go 1.16.4 includes a fix for a denial-of-service in net/http: golang/go#45710

Go's error file-line formatting changed in 1.16.3, so this change
updates tests to only do suffix matching on these error strings.
olix0r added a commit to linkerd/linkerd2 that referenced this issue May 24, 2021
Go 1.16.4 includes a fix for a denial-of-service in net/http: golang/go#45710

Go's error file-line formatting changed in 1.16.3, so this change
updates tests to only do suffix matching on these error strings.
buildroot-auto-update pushed a commit to buildroot/buildroot that referenced this issue Sep 14, 2021
Fixes the following security issues:

- CVE-2021-31525: ReadRequest and ReadResponse in net/http can hit an
  unrecoverable panic when reading a very large header (over 7MB on 64-bit
  architectures, or over 4MB on 32-bit ones).  Transport and Client are
  vulnerable and the program can be made to crash by a malicious server.
  Server is not vulnerable by default, but can be if the default max header
  of 1MB is overridden by setting Server.MaxHeaderBytes to a higher value,
  in which case the program can be made to crash by a malicious client.

  golang/go#45710

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 1cfc01a)
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <[email protected]>
thaJeztah pushed a commit to thaJeztah/containerd that referenced this issue Sep 15, 2021
fix [#45710](golang/go#45710) and CVE-2021-31525.

Signed-off-by: Jintao Zhang <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 79d800b)
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <[email protected]>
fahedouch pushed a commit to fahedouch/containerd that referenced this issue Oct 15, 2021
fix [#45710](golang/go#45710) and CVE-2021-31525.

Signed-off-by: Jintao Zhang <[email protected]>
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