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Detects and rejects malformed response headers#2773

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This works around a byte truncation flaw in node core versions > 0.10
where the high bit is stripped from headers leading to a possible header
injection.

This works around a byte truncation flaw in node core versions > 0.10
where the high bit is stripped from headers leading to a possible header
injection.
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This has security implications for folks passing arbitrary data to redirects in any fashion, even within otherwise legit URLs.

@hueniverse hueniverse added the security Issue with security impact label Oct 1, 2015
@hueniverse hueniverse added this to the 10.2.0 milestone Oct 2, 2015
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@hueniverse hueniverse merged commit 8853985 into hapijs:master Oct 2, 2015
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