Control characters (0x00-0x1f, 0x7f), space, and colon were never allowed in
header names. The only somewhat valid use is header continuation which nginx
never supported and which is explicitly obsolete by RFC 7230.
Previously, such headers were considered invalid and were ignored by default
(as per ignore_invalid_headers directive). With this change, such headers
are unconditionally rejected.
It is expected to make nginx more resilient to various attacks, in particular,
with ignore_invalid_headers switched off (which is inherently unsecure, though
nevertheless sometimes used in the wild).
Control characters (0x00-0x1f, 0x7f) were never allowed in URIs, and must
be percent-encoded by clients. Further, these are not believed to appear
in practice. On the other hand, passing such characters might make various
attacks possible or easier, despite the fact that currently allowed control
characters are not significant for HTTP request parsing.
From now on, requests with spaces in URIs are immediately rejected rather
than allowed. Spaces were allowed in 31e9677b15a1 (0.8.41) to handle bad
clients. It is believed that now this behaviour causes more harm than
good.
Per RFC 3986 only the following characters are allowed in URIs unescaped:
unreserved = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~"
gen-delims = ":" / "/" / "?" / "#" / "[" / "]" / "@"
sub-delims = "!" / "$" / "&" / "'" / "(" / ")"
/ "*" / "+" / "," / ";" / "="
And "%" can appear as a part of escaping itself. The following
characters are not allowed and need to be escaped: %00-%1F, %7F-%FF,
" ", """, "<", ">", "\", "^", "`", "{", "|", "}".
Not escaping ">" is known to cause problems at least with MS Exchange (see
http://nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-ru/2010-January/031261.html) and in
Tomcat (ticket #2191).
The patch adds escaping of the following chars in all URI parts: """, "<",
">", "\", "^", "`", "{", "|", "}". Note that comments are mostly preserved
to outline important characters being escaped.
HTTP clients are not allowed to generate such requests since Transfer-Encoding
introduction in RFC 2068, and they are not expected to appear in practice
except in attempts to perform a request smuggling attack. While handling of
such requests is strictly defined, the most secure approach seems to reject
them.
No valid CONNECT requests are expected to appear within nginx, since it
is not a forward proxy. Further, request line parsing will reject
proper CONNECT requests anyway, since we don't allow authority-form of
request-target. On the other hand, RFC 7230 specifies separate message
length rules for CONNECT which we don't support, so make sure to always
reject CONNECTs to avoid potential abuse.
Previously, TRACE requests were rejected before parsing Transfer-Encoding.
This is not important since keepalive is not enabled at this point anyway,
though rejecting such requests after properly parsing other headers is
less likely to cause issues in case of further code changes.
After 2096b21fcd10, a single RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) may not result in an error.
This change removes several unnecessary ctx->type checks for such a case.
Recent fixes to SSL shutdown with lingering close (554c6ae25ffc, 1.19.5)
broke logging of SSL variables. To make sure logging of SSL variables
works properly, avoid freeing c->ssl when doing an SSL shutdown before
lingering close.
Reported by Reinis Rozitis
(http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2021-May/060670.html).
Instead of calling SSL_free() with each return point, introduced a single
place where cleanup happens. As a positive side effect, this fixes two
potential memory leaks on ngx_handle_read_event() and ngx_handle_write_event()
errors where there were no SSL_free() calls (though unlikely practical,
as errors there are only expected to happen due to bugs or kernel issues).
On Linux, SO_REUSEADDR allows completely duplicate UDP sockets, so using
SO_REUSEADDR when testing configuration results in packets being dropped
if there is an existing traffic on the sockets being tested (ticket #2187).
While dropped packets are expected with UDP, it is better to avoid this
when possible.
With this change, SO_REUSEADDR is no longer set on datagram sockets when
testing configuration.
Since we anyway do not set SO_REUSEPORT when testing configuration
(see ecb5cd305b06), trying to open additional sockets does not make much
sense, as all these additional sockets are expected to result in EADDRINUSE
errors from bind(). On the other hand, there are reports that trying
to open these sockets takes significant time under load: total configuration
testing time greater than 15s was observed in ticket #2188, compared to less
than 1s without load.
With this change, no additional sockets are opened during testing
configuration.
Since nginx always uses exactly one entry in the question section of
a DNS query, and never uses compression pointers in this entry, parsing
of a DNS response in ngx_resolver_process_response() does not expect
compression pointers to appear in the question section of the DNS
response. Indeed, compression pointers in the first name of a DNS response
hardly make sense, do not seem to be allowed by RFC 1035 (which says
"a pointer to a prior occurance of the same name", note "prior"), and
were never observed in practice.
Added an explicit check to ngx_resolver_process_response()'s parsing
of the question section to properly report an error if compression pointers
nevertheless appear in the question section.
Instead of checking on each label if we need to place a dot or not,
now it always adds a dot after a label, and reduces the resulting
length afterwards.
Previously, anything with any of the two high bits set were interpreted
as compression pointers. This is incorrect, as RFC 1035 clearly states
that "The 10 and 01 combinations are reserved for future use". Further,
the 01 combination is actually allocated for EDNS extended label type
(see RFC 2671 and RFC 6891), not really used though.
Fix is to reject unrecognized label types rather than misinterpreting
them as compression pointers.
It is believed to be harmless, and in the worst case it uses some
uninitialized memory as a part of the compression pointer length,
eventually leading to the "name is out of DNS response" error.
When variables are used in ssl_certificate or ssl_certificate_key, a request
is created in the certificate callback to evaluate the variables, and then
freed. Freeing it, however, updates c->log->action to "closing request",
resulting in confusing error messages like "client timed out ... while
closing request" when a client times out during the SSL handshake.
Fix is to restore c->log->action after calling ngx_http_free_request().
Similarly to smtpd_hard_error_limit in Postfix and smtp_max_unknown_commands
in Exim, specifies the number of errors after which the connection is closed.
The change is mostly the same as the SMTP one (04e43d03e153 and 3f5d0af4e40a),
and ensures that nginx is able to properly handle or reject multiple IMAP
commands. The s->cmd field is not really used and set for consistency.
Non-synchronizing literals handling in invalid/unknown commands is limited,
so when a non-synchronizing literal is detected at the end of a discarded
line, the connection is closed.
Only "A-Za-z0-9-._" characters now allowed (which is stricter than what
RFC 3501 requires, but expected to be enough for all known clients),
and tags shouldn't be longer than 32 characters.
Previously, s->backslash was set if any of the arguments was a quoted
string with a backslash character. After successful command parsing
this resulted in all arguments being filtered to remove backslashes.
This is, however, incorrect, as backslashes should not be removed from
IMAP literals. For example:
S: * OK IMAP4 ready
C: a01 login {9}
S: + OK
C: user\name "pass\"word"
S: * BAD internal server error
resulted in "Auth-User: username" instead of "Auth-User: user\name"
as it should.
Fix is to apply backslash filtering on per-argument basis during parsing.
As discussed in the previous change, s->arg_start handling in the "done"
labels of ngx_mail_pop3_parse_command(), ngx_mail_imap_parse_command(),
and ngx_mail_smtp_parse_command() is wrong: s->arg_start cannot be
set there, as it is handled and cleared on all code paths where the
"done" labels are reached. The relevant code is dead and now removed.
Previously, s->arg_start was left intact after invalid IMAP commands,
and this might result in an argument incorrectly added to the following
command. Similarly, s->backslash was left intact as well, leading
to unneeded backslash removal.
For example (LFs from the client are explicitly shown as "<LF>"):
S: * OK IMAP4 ready
C: a01 login "\<LF>
S: a01 BAD invalid command
C: a0000000000\2 authenticate <LF>
S: a00000000002 aBAD invalid command
The backslash followed by LF generates invalid command with s->arg_start
and s->backslash set, the following command incorrectly treats anything
from the old s->arg_start to the space after the command as an argument,
and removes the backslash from the tag. If there is no space, s->arg_end
will be NULL.
Both things seem to be harmless though. In particular:
- This can be used to provide an incorrect argument to a command without
arguments. The only command which seems to look at the single argument
is AUTHENTICATE, and it checks the argument length before trying to
access it.
- Backslash removal uses the "end" pointer, and stops due to "src < end"
condition instead of scanning all the process memory if s->arg_end is
NULL (and arg[0].len is huge).
- There should be no backslashes in unquoted strings.
An obvious fix is to clear s->arg_start and s->backslash on invalid commands,
similarly to how it is done in POP3 parsing (added in 810:e3aa8f305d21) and
SMTP parsing.
This, however, makes it clear that s->arg_start handling in the "done"
label is wrong: s->arg_start cannot be legitimately set there, as it
is expected to be cleared in all possible cases when the "done" label is
reached. The relevant code is dead and will be removed by the following
change.
The change is mostly the same as the SMTP one (04e43d03e153 and 3f5d0af4e40a),
and ensures that nginx is able to properly handle or reject multiple POP3
commands, as required by the PIPELINING capability (RFC 2449). The s->cmd
field is not really used and set for consistency.
There is no need to scan buffer from s->buffer->pos, as we already scanned
the buffer till "p" and wasn't able to find an LF.
There is no real need for this change in SMTP, since it is at most a
microoptimization of a non-common code path. Similar code in IMAP, however,
will have to start scanning from "p" to be correct, since there can be
newlines in IMAP literals.
Previously, if an invalid SMTP command was split between reads, nginx failed
to wait for LF before returning an error, and interpreted the rest of the
command received later as a separate command.
The sw_invalid state in ngx_mail_smtp_parse_command(), introduced in
04e43d03e153, did not work, since ngx_mail_smtp_auth_state() clears
s->state when returning an error due to NGX_MAIL_PARSE_INVALID_COMMAND.
And not clearing s->state will introduce another problem: the rest
of the command would trigger duplicate error when rest of the command is
received.
Fix is to return NGX_AGAIN from ngx_mail_smtp_parse_command() until full
command is received.
Previously, if there were some pipelined SMTP data in the buffer when
a proxied connection with the backend was established, nginx called
ngx_mail_proxy_handler() to send these data, and not tried to send the
response to the last command. In most cases, this response was later sent
along with the response to the pipelined command, but if for some reason
client decides to wait for the response before finishing the next command
this might result in a connection hang.
Fix is to always call ngx_mail_proxy_handler() to send the response, and
additionally post an event to send the pipelined data if needed.
With this change, it is now possible to use ngx_conf_merge_ptr_value()
to merge complex values. This change follows much earlier changes in
ngx_conf_merge_ptr_value() and ngx_conf_set_str_array_slot()
in 1452:cd586e963db0 (0.6.10) and 1701:40d004d95d88 (0.6.22), and the
change in ngx_conf_set_keyval_slot() (7728:485dba3e2a01, 1.19.4).
To preserve compatibility with existing 3rd party modules, both NULL
and NGX_CONF_UNSET_PTR are accepted for now.
Due to structure's alignment, some uninitialized memory contents may have
been passed between processes.
Zeroing was removed in 0215ec9aaa8a.
Reported by Johnny Wang.
With SMTP pipelining, ngx_mail_read_command() can be called with s->buffer
without any space available, to parse additional commands received to the
buffer on previous calls. Previously, this resulted in recv() being called
with zero length, resulting in zero being returned, which was interpreted
as a connection close by the client, so nginx silently closed connection.
Fix is to avoid calling c->recv() if there is no free space in the buffer,
but continue parsing of the already received commands.
It turns out no browsers implement HTTP/2 GOAWAY handling properly, and
large enough number of resources on a page results in failures to load
some resources. In particular, Chrome seems to experience errors if
loading of all resources requires more than 1 connection (while it
is usually able to retry requests at least once, even with 2 connections
there are occasional failures for some reason), Safari if loading requires
more than 3 connections, and Firefox if loading requires more than 10
connections (can be configured with network.http.request.max-attempts,
defaults to 10).
It does not seem to be possible to resolve this on nginx side, even strict
limiting of maximum concurrency does not help, and loading issues seems to
be triggered by merely queueing of a request for a particular connection.
The only available mitigation seems to use higher keepalive_requests value.
The new default is 1000 and matches previously used default for
http2_max_requests. It is expected to be enough for 99.98% of the pages
(https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-the-web?start=latest#reqTotal)
even in Chrome.
