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Willy Tarreau d12edebe4a BUG/MAJOR: mux-h2: detect incomplete transfers on HEADERS frames as well
Checks are already made on H2 to detect inconsistencies between
advertised content-length and transferred data (excess of data or
premature END_STREAM flag on DATA frame). However, as found by
Martino Spagnuolo (r3verii), a subtle case remains: if the END_STREAM
appears on the HEADERS frame (i.e. a regular request for example),
then the check is not made. In this case it is possible to advertise
more contents than will really be transferred. If the other side uses
HTTP/1.1, and the server responds before the end of the transfer,
this means that the number of advertised bytes that will never be
transferred and that the server will drain will be taken from the
next request, effectively hiding a part of the header.

In practice this can be used to force subsequent requests to fail, or
when running with "http-reuse never" or when running with a totally
idle server, to perform a request smuggling by constructing specially
crafted request pairs where the first one is used to trigger an early
response and hide parts of or all headers of the second one, to
instead use a second embedded one that was not subject to analysis.

The risk remains moderate given the low prevalence of "http-reuse never"
in production environments, and of idle servers.

The fix consists in detecting if advertised content-length remains when
processing an END_STREAM flag on a HEADERS frame. It also does it for
trailers, which turn out to be another way to abuse the bug. However it
takes great care not to break bodyless responses (204, 304 and responses
to HEAD requests) that may present a content-length that doesn't reflect
the presence of a body in the response.

A temporary alternative to the fix is to disable HTTP/2 by specifying
"alpn http/1.1" on "bind" lines, and adding "option disable-h2-upgrade"
in HTTP frontends.

This must be backported to all stable versions.
2026-04-23 17:05:24 +02:00
.github ci: modernize actions/upload-artifact@v4 2026-04-22 15:18:22 +02:00
addons MINOR: otel: test: unified run scripts into a single symlinked script 2026-04-17 15:28:05 +02:00
admin CLEANUP: fix typos and spelling in comments and documentation 2026-03-30 09:24:19 +02:00
dev CLEANUP: fix typos and spelling in comments and documentation 2026-03-30 09:24:19 +02:00
doc DOC: config: fix typo introduce in max-threads-per-group documentation 2026-04-23 11:55:45 +02:00
examples EXAMPLES: ssl: keylog entries are greater than 1024 2026-04-14 16:24:28 +02:00
include Revert "BUG/MINOR: stream: add the newly added SF_TXN_* flags to strm_show_flags()" 2026-04-23 14:37:33 +02:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: Never reuse server connection in server/cli_delete_dynamic_server.vtc 2026-04-23 10:56:10 +02:00
scripts BUG/MINOR: reg-tests: make shell syntax errors fatal 2026-04-22 15:18:22 +02:00
src BUG/MAJOR: mux-h2: detect incomplete transfers on HEADERS frames as well 2026-04-23 17:05:24 +02:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-3 2025-10-09 14:06:48 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES DOC: clarify the experimental status for certain features 2025-10-17 18:41:13 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev9 2026-04-15 17:59:00 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2025-11-26 16:11:47 +01:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile BUILD: Makefile: don't forget to also delete haterm on make clean 2026-04-14 16:48:16 +02:00
README.md CI: github: add cross-zoo.yml in README.md 2026-04-20 11:47:20 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev9 2026-04-15 17:59:00 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev9 2026-04-15 17:59:00 +02:00

HAProxy

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HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:

  • INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  • BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  • LICENSE for the project's license
  • CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.