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92ea8476
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2024-02-18T08:56:46
Forbid 0x/+/-/whitespace prefixes on HTTP chunk sizes (#1542) Currently, libevent's HTTP parser accepts and ignores 0x, +, and whitespace prefixes on chunk sizes. It also ignores - prefixes on chunk sizes of 0. This patch fixes that. There is a potential danger in the current behavior, which is that there exist HTTP implementations that interpret chunk sizes as their longest valid prefix. For those implementations, 0xa (for example) is equivalent to 0, and this may present a request smuggling risk when those implementations are used in conjunction with libevent. However, as far I'm aware, there is no HTTP proxy that both interprets 0xa as 0 and forwards it verbatim, so I think this is a low-risk bug that is acceptable to report in public.

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. # Default to Unix Makefiles.
make
make verify # (optional)
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md build && cd build
cmake -G "Visual Studio 10" .. # Or use any generator you want to use. Run cmake --help for a list
cmake --build . --config Release # Or "start libevent.sln" and build with menu in Visual Studio.
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./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
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Note, since 2.2 it is deprecated
./configure
make
make verify # (optional)
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