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urlparse: accept '#' as end of host name
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'http://example.com#@127.0.0.1/x.txt' equals a request to example.com
for the '/' document with the rest of the URL being a fragment.

CVE-2016-8624

Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102J.html
Reported-by: Fernando Muñoz
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bagder committed Oct 31, 2016
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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions lib/url.c
Expand Up @@ -4164,7 +4164,7 @@ static CURLcode parseurlandfillconn(struct Curl_easy *data,
path[0]=0;

rc = sscanf(data->change.url,
"%15[^\n:]:%3[/]%[^\n/?]%[^\n]",
"%15[^\n:]:%3[/]%[^\n/?#]%[^\n]",
protobuf, slashbuf, conn->host.name, path);
if(2 == rc) {
failf(data, "Bad URL");
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* The URL was badly formatted, let's try the browser-style _without_
* protocol specified like 'http://'.
*/
rc = sscanf(data->change.url, "%[^\n/?]%[^\n]", conn->host.name, path);
rc = sscanf(data->change.url, "%[^\n/?#]%[^\n]", conn->host.name, path);
if(1 > rc) {
/*
* We couldn't even get this format.
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}

/* If the URL is malformatted (missing a '/' after hostname before path) we
* insert a slash here. The only letter except '/' we accept to start a path
* is '?'.
* insert a slash here. The only letters except '/' that can start a path is
* '?' and '#' - as controlled by the two sscanf() patterns above.
*/
if(path[0] == '?') {
if(path[0] != '/') {
/* We need this function to deal with overlapping memory areas. We know
that the memory area 'path' points to is 'urllen' bytes big and that
is bigger than the path. Use +1 to move the zero byte too. */
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