Bug 8426

There is a bug in Busybox httpd that allows an attacker to provoke a heap buffer overflow: When a client requests a URL that points to a directory and omits the trailing slash, the httpd will generate a 302 Found response. The response contains a Location: header that copies the client-provided URL path and query string. There is no length check when writing those strings into iobuf (httpd.c:970). The data originally comes from iobuf, but together with the remaining header lines the total response size can exceed the buffer size.

Steps to reproduce:

mkdir test
python -c 'print("get /test?" + ("x" * 8192))' | valgrind ./busybox httpd -i -h .