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http: check reason chars in writeHead
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Previously, the reason argument passed to ServerResponse#writeHead was
not being properly validated.  One could pass CRLFs which could lead to
http response splitting. This commit changes the behavior to throw an
error in the event any invalid characters are included in the reason.

CVE-2016-5325

PR-URL: nodejs-private/node-private#46
Reviewed-By: Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
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evanlucas authored and rvagg committed Sep 27, 2016
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions lib/_http_server.js
Expand Up @@ -191,6 +191,9 @@ ServerResponse.prototype.writeHead = function(statusCode, reason, obj) {
if (statusCode < 100 || statusCode > 999)
throw new RangeError(`Invalid status code: ${statusCode}`);

if (common._checkInvalidHeaderChar(this.statusMessage))
throw new Error('Invalid character in statusMessage.');

var statusLine = 'HTTP/1.1 ' + statusCode.toString() + ' ' +
this.statusMessage + CRLF;

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46 changes: 46 additions & 0 deletions test/parallel/test-http-status-reason-invalid-chars.js
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'use strict';

const common = require('../common');
const assert = require('assert');
const http = require('http');

function explicit(req, res) {
assert.throws(() => {
res.writeHead(200, `OK\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\n`);
}, /Invalid character in statusMessage/);

assert.throws(() => {
res.writeHead(200, 'OK\u010D\u010AContent-Type: gotcha\r\n');
}, /Invalid character in statusMessage/);

res.statusMessage = 'OK';
res.end();
}

function implicit(req, res) {
assert.throws(() => {
res.statusMessage = `OK\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\n`;
res.writeHead(200);
}, /Invalid character in statusMessage/);
res.statusMessage = 'OK';
res.end();
}

const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
if (req.url === '/explicit') {
explicit(req, res);
} else {
implicit(req, res);
}
}).listen(common.PORT, common.mustCall(() => {
const url = `http://localhost:${common.PORT}`;
let left = 2;
const check = common.mustCall((res) => {
left--;
assert.notEqual(res.headers['content-type'], 'text/html');
assert.notEqual(res.headers['content-type'], 'gotcha');
if (left === 0) server.close();
}, 2);
http.get(`${url}/explicit`, check).end();
http.get(`${url}/implicit`, check).end();
}));

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