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http: protect against response splitting attacks
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piscisaureus authored and isaacs committed Dec 8, 2012
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions lib/http.js
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Expand Up @@ -551,6 +551,11 @@ OutgoingMessage.prototype._storeHeader = function(firstLine, headers) {
var self = this;

function store(field, value) {
// Protect against response splitting. The if statement is there to
// minimize the performance impact in the common case.
if (/[\r\n]/.test(value))
value = value.replace(/[\r\n]+[ \t]*/g, '');

messageHeader += field + ': ' + value + CRLF;

if (connectionExpression.test(field)) {
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64 changes: 64 additions & 0 deletions test/simple/test-http-header-response-splitting.js
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var common = require('../common'),
assert = require('assert'),
http = require('http');

var testIndex = 0,
responses = 0;

var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
switch (testIndex++) {
case 0:
res.writeHead(200, { test: 'foo \r\ninvalid: bar' });
break;
case 1:
res.writeHead(200, { test: 'foo \ninvalid: bar' });
break;
case 2:
res.writeHead(200, { test: 'foo \rinvalid: bar' });
break;
case 3:
res.writeHead(200, { test: 'foo \n\n\ninvalid: bar' });
break;
case 4:
res.writeHead(200, { test: 'foo \r\n \r\n \r\ninvalid: bar' });
server.close();
break;
default:
assert(false);
}
res.end('Hi mars!');
});
server.listen(common.PORT);

for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
var req = http.get({ port: common.PORT, path: '/' }, function(res) {
assert.strictEqual(res.headers.test, 'foo invalid: bar');
assert.strictEqual(res.headers.invalid, undefined);
responses++;
});
}

process.on('exit', function() {
assert.strictEqual(responses, 5);
});

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