go1.21.9 (released 2024-04-03) includes a security fix to the net/http
package, as well as bug fixes to the linker, and the go/types and
net/http packages. See the Go 1.21.9 milestone for more details;
https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.21.9+label%3ACherryPickApproved
These minor releases include 1 security fixes following the security policy:
- http2: close connections when receiving too many headers
Maintaining HPACK state requires that we parse and process all HEADERS
and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exceed
MaxHeaderBytes, we don't allocate memory to store the excess headers but
we do parse them. This permits an attacker to cause an HTTP/2 endpoint
to read arbitrary amounts of header data, all associated with a request
which is going to be rejected. These headers can include Huffman-encoded
data which is significantly more expensive for the receiver to decode
than for an attacker to send.
Set a limit on the amount of excess header frames we will process before
closing a connection.
Thanks to Bartek Nowotarski (https://nowotarski.info/) for reporting this issue.
This is CVE-2023-45288 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/65051.
View the release notes for more information:
https://go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.22.2
- https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.21.9+label%3ACherryPickApproved
- full diff: https://github.com/golang/go/compare/go1.21.8...go1.21.9
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
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