fix(http1): reject content-lengths that have a plus sign prefix

The HTTP/1 content-length parser would accept lengths that were prefixed
with a plus sign (for example, `+1234`). The specification restricts the
content-length header to only allow DIGITs, making such a content-length
illegal. Since some HTTP implementations protect against that, and
others mis-interpret the length when the plus sign is present, this
fixes hyper to always reject such content lengths.

See GHSA-f3pg-qwvg-p99c

Author: seanmonstar

src/headers.rs

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ fn connection_has(value: &HeaderValue, needle: &str) -> bool {
 
 #[cfg(all(feature = "http1", feature = "server"))]
 pub(super) fn content_length_parse(value: &HeaderValue) -> Option<u64> {
-    value.to_str().ok().and_then(|s| s.parse().ok())
+    from_digits(value.as_bytes())
 }
 
 pub(super) fn content_length_parse_all(headers: &HeaderMap) -> Option<u64> {
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ pub(super) fn content_length_parse_all_values(values: ValueIter<'_, HeaderValue>
     for h in values {
         if let Ok(line) = h.to_str() {
             for v in line.split(',') {
-                if let Some(n) = v.trim().parse().ok() {
+                if let Some(n) = from_digits(v.trim().as_bytes()) {
                     if content_length.is_none() {
                         content_length = Some(n)
                     } else if content_length != Some(n) {
@@ -64,6 +64,33 @@ pub(super) fn content_length_parse_all_values(values: ValueIter<'_, HeaderValue>
     return content_length
 }
 
+fn from_digits(bytes: &[u8]) -> Option<u64> {
+    // cannot use FromStr for u64, since it allows a signed prefix
+    let mut result = 0u64;
+    const RADIX: u64 = 10;
+
+    if bytes.is_empty() {
+        return None;
+    }
+
+    for &b in bytes {
+        // can't use char::to_digit, since we haven't verified these bytes
+        // are utf-8.
+        match b {
+            b'0'..=b'9' => {
+                result = result.checked_mul(RADIX)?;
+                result = result.checked_add((b - b'0') as u64)?;
+            },
+            _ => {
+                // not a DIGIT, get outta here!
+                return None;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    Some(result)
+}
+
 #[cfg(all(feature = "http2", feature = "client"))]
 pub(super) fn method_has_defined_payload_semantics(method: &Method) -> bool {
     match *method {

src/proto/h1/role.rs

@@ -219,10 +219,8 @@ impl Http1Transaction for Server {
                     if is_te {
                         continue;
                     }
-                    let len = value
-                        .to_str()
-                        .map_err(|_| Parse::content_length_invalid())
-                        .and_then(|s| s.parse().map_err(|_| Parse::content_length_invalid()))?;
+                    let len = headers::content_length_parse(&value)
+                        .ok_or_else(Parse::content_length_invalid)?;
                     if let Some(prev) = con_len {
                         if prev != len {
                             debug!(
@@ -1775,6 +1773,16 @@ mod tests {
             "multiple content-lengths",
         );
 
+        // content-length with prefix is not allowed
+        parse_err(
+            "\
+             POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n\
+             content-length: +10\r\n\
+             \r\n\
+             ",
+            "prefixed content-length",
+        );
+
         // transfer-encoding that isn't chunked is an error
         parse_err(
             "\
@@ -1958,6 +1966,14 @@ mod tests {
              ",
         );
 
+        parse_err(
+            "\
+             HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\
+             content-length: +8\r\n\
+             \r\n\
+             ",
+        );
+
         // transfer-encoding: chunked
         assert_eq!(
             parse(

tests/server.rs

@@ -405,6 +405,44 @@ fn get_chunked_response_with_ka() {
     read_until(&mut req, |buf| buf.ends_with(quux)).expect("reading 2");
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn post_with_content_length_body() {
+    let server = serve();
+    let mut req = connect(server.addr());
+    req.write_all(
+        b"\
+        POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n\
+        Content-Length: 5\r\n\
+        \r\n\
+        hello\
+    ",
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+    req.read(&mut [0; 256]).unwrap();
+
+    assert_eq!(server.body(), b"hello");
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn post_with_invalid_prefix_content_length() {
+    let server = serve();
+    let mut req = connect(server.addr());
+    req.write_all(
+        b"\
+        POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n\
+        Content-Length: +5\r\n\
+        \r\n\
+        hello\
+    ",
+    )
+    .unwrap();
+
+    let mut buf = [0; 256];
+    let _n = req.read(&mut buf).unwrap();
+    let expected = "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request\r\n";
+    assert_eq!(s(&buf[..expected.len()]), expected);
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn post_with_chunked_body() {
     let server = serve();