[New-bugs-announce] [issue10714] httpserver request length

[Ross Lagerwall]

New submission from Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall at gmail.com>:

BaseHTTPRequestHandler in http.server does not limit the length of the request line so a malicious client can cause the server to run out of memory with a malicious request.

This patch limits the length to 64K (like Apache) and sends Error 414 if it exceeds this.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: httpserver_py3k.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 124106
nosy: rosslagerwall
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: httpserver request length
type: security
versions: Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file20074/httpserver_py3k.patch

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