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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU> on 1997/05/14 21:22:06 UTC
[STATUS] Wed May 14 12:19:45 PDT 1997
1.2b11 status as of Wed May 14 12:19:45 PDT 1997
* Code changes committed since 1.2b10:
* ErrorDocument CGI responding to error from another CGI fixed
* PR#512: signal redefinition problem on QNX
* CGIWrap Problems (restore old PATH_INFO definition)
* I hate messed up initializers (in USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT)
* PR#501: escape html in server-status
* PR#506: no DefaultType means no Content-Type
* error responses have wrong headers (part 1)
* Clarified comment about USERDIR_SUFFIX in suexec.h
* HP-UX/cc compiler fix (minus oops)
* internal redirect must inherit the_request
* added comments and check the_request in original_uri()
* Allow consistant use of whitespace in Configuration
* PR#502: timeout problems (second try)
* mod_dir HTTP_NOT_ACCEPTABLE fixup
* error responses have wrong headers (part 2)
The Plan
========
* Dean is on vacation starting Thursday.
Roy will be in Boston for a week starting Saturday (17-24).
Agenda for 1.2b11-dev
====================
Patches available:
* Dean's mod_dir/576: Port 0 being added in directory redirects
<Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>
Status: +1 Paul Sutton
No patches yet, showstoppers:
* SIGTERM problem under OS/2
Status: Garey will submit patch
* PR#502: timeout still a problem with IdentityCheck On.
Roy thinks it may be a problem with how longjmp and signal are
used in rfc1413.c (try replacing
static jmp_buf timebuf;
with
JMP_BUF timebuf;
and replacing the longjmp/setjmp calls with the definitions
used within http_main.c
Documentation Changes that should make 1.2:
* some better suexec docs would be really nice, detailing some of the
security risks and compromises discussed
Status: I think Randy said something about doing it at one point.
Randy says he thinks Jason is perhaps doing them.
[And Roy says: either somebody needs to document how it
works (I don't know), or I'll go through and remove the
documentation about how "good" it is to use it.]
New Status: not really worth holding 1.2 on
* Document problems with mismatch on FD_SETSIZE=1024?
* Deal with Martin Kraemer's documentation notes:
<19...@deejai.mch.sni.de>
<19...@deejai.mch.sni.de>
Post 1.2:
* Marc's [PATCH] PR#566: mod_status dumps core in inetd mode
<Pi...@alive.znep.com>
<97...@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Status: +1 Marc (post-1.2), Roy (with minor change), Dean
* Dean's solaris 256 FILE * problem
<Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>
Status: Dean seeing if it works for user, maybe add to FAQ
* Various minor tweaks to port to different platforms:
PR#383, PR#388, PR#399, PR#333, PR#327, PR#445, PR#511
* Fix mod_negotiation to follow latest TCN draft
Petr Lampa wants to work on this.
* Doug MacEachern's [PATCH] merge dbm auth configs
Status: The question is, should we be merging auth configs?
Ken says not by default and not unless it's configurable.
* redo lingering_close to check for old sockets to close out before
accept() in child.
Status: doesn't look to be overly clean to do in the current
framework. Will not have time to do implementation for this
beta in any case. If it turns out to be a big issue,
could go in later. (1.2.1?)
* Marc wants to have a check to be sure
log directory(ies) isn't writable by anyone except the user starting
the server. The posting in bugtraq only highlites the problem.
Needs override. See NCSA code for sample implem.
Status: Marc busy writing
* error compiling on NeXT:
In file included from http_main.c:108:
/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/netinet/tcp.h:57: duplicate member `th_off'
/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/netinet/tcp.h:58: duplicate member `th_x2'
Status: got a login in a NeXT OpenStep 4.x machine to test,
looks like an interaction between gcc and the header
files. It is trying to include definitions for both big and
little endian platforms, and that no work.
* Type map can't find appropriate document for language on Solaris
2.x. (I can't gistify this one; full details in message ID
<Pi...@localhost.imdb.com>.)
Reporter has provided tar.gz file of config info.
(no PR#, 1.2b7, 24/2/1997, <ej...@cise.ufl.edu>)
Status: Dean might have fixed this one (the table overlay bug)
[Dean has mailed the submitter to ask them to test 1.2b8 or b9]
* SONY NEWS port. See both:
<Pi...@taz.hyperreal.com>
<Pi...@taz.hyperreal.com>
Jim working on a patch, but not until after 1.2b8
Should be added to the bugdb:
* "Large groups cause authentication errors" on FreeBSD
[salari@cs.ubc.ca]; problem looks to be MAX_STRING_LEN buffer
in groups_for_user.
Contrib stuff / future:
* Start digital signing the distributions.
* Chris Adams <ca...@ro.com> patch to mod_log_config to add %m and %c.
* mod_log_config patch for conditional logging
Status: contrib, not in server
* Jim has patch for time taken to handle a request in status module
* Ed has an updated patch for limiting connections per IP
* mod_include could use boyer-moore searching for <!--# and/or it could
mmap the file.
* add some setlocale stuff?
* status module available from .htaccess files; Ken posted patch
* status report shows PIDs in empty slots, user supplied some sort
of patch; behavior now is correct, but perhaps some cleanup of
how the results are displayed could be done after 1.2...
<Pi...@localhost.imdb.com>
* Rob's "DONE" status response check for die()
<Pi...@localhost.imdb.com>
Roy says it's a feature... Dean agrees, thinks we should slate
something for 2.0 that can handle this cleanly.
* tem@global2000.net provided a patch for mod_imap to make it more
friendly with MS FrontPage map files. Available in
<Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>
* Dean's gif89 and expires hack
<Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>
* mod_userdir needs a DisallowUserDir directive, a la ftp.deny, to
restrict user names that can be accessed. Ken says maybe
"UserDir disabled [user [...]]".
* get_local_host and NIS patch fo SunOS 4
<Pi...@localhost>
* internationalized documentation
* pagecounter extension to mod_include
<Pi...@taz.hyperreal.com>
* mod_expires improvements from "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <ma...@iphil.net>
at <http://www.iphil.net/~map/apache/>
* add is_initial_req() function
* mod_dir: send HEIGHT/WIDTH tags to improve performance for user see
PR#393 for a patch that provides this
* A CIDRized access list patch such as the one supplied in
<Pi...@taz.hyperreal.com>
* PR#344: 64-bit cleanups
Re: [STATUS] Wed May 14 12:19:45 PDT 1997
Posted by Paul Sutton <pa...@ukweb.com>.
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> 1.2b11 status as of Wed May 14 12:19:45 PDT 1997
> Agenda for 1.2b11-dev
> ====================
> No patches yet, showstoppers:
>
> * SIGTERM problem under OS/2
> Status: Garey will submit patch
>
> * PR#502: timeout still a problem with IdentityCheck On.
> Roy thinks it may be a problem with how longjmp and signal are
> used in rfc1413.c (try replacing
> static jmp_buf timebuf;
> with
> JMP_BUF timebuf;
> and replacing the longjmp/setjmp calls with the definitions
> used within http_main.c
Did the %2f in PATH_INFO bug(ette) ever get fixed? It was in previous
status mailings are
| * [BUG?] /cgi-bin/foo/bar%2fbaz
| unescape_url in util.c is forbidding %2f in PATH_INFO.
| The problem is that we use the %2f check to avoid security problems
| with stupid scripts. Roy thinks the best solution would be to
| decode all %2f's before doing any processing on the path, and thus
| reduce %2f... to /.. before doing the path checks. This makes it
| impossible to have a filename containing slash, but no big deal.
It is now also pr#543.
Isn't the problem that %2f is not allowed _anywhere_ in the request URI?
unescape_url returns NOT_FOUND if it sees a %2f - and unescape_url is
called early on in the processing of a request with _the full request
URI_. So even "GET %2f HTTP/1.0" fails.
I was originally going to suggest we leave this to post 1.2 if it was only
path_info that was affected, but now I think it ought to be fixed asap.
Surely the solution is simply to remove the check that sets bad_path if
the % sequence decodes to / in unescape_url?
This then is no different to the original request including / instead of
%2f, so there shouldn't be any security worries within Apache.
//pcs
Here's the mini patch
*** util.c.orig Thu May 15 22:08:35 1997
--- util.c Thu May 15 22:08:46 1997
***************
*** 772,778 ****
{
url[x] = x2c(&url[y+1]);
y += 2;
! if (url[x] == '/' || url[x] == '\0') badpath = 1;
}
}
}
--- 772,778 ----
{
url[x] = x2c(&url[y+1]);
y += 2;
! if (url[x] == '\0') badpath = 1;
}
}
}