http2: limit number of invalid incoming frames

Limit the number of invalid input frames, as they may be pointing
towards a misbehaving peer. The limit is currently set to 1000 but
could be changed or made configurable.

This is intended to mitigate CVE-2019-9514.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/29122
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 79 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/parallel/test-http2-reset-flood.js b/test/parallel/test-http2-reset-flood.js
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+'use strict';
+const common = require('../common');
+if (!common.hasCrypto)
+  common.skip('missing crypto');
+
+const http2 = require('http2');
+const net = require('net');
+const { Worker, parentPort } = require('worker_threads');
+
+// Verify that creating a number of invalid HTTP/2 streams will eventually
+// result in the peer closing the session.
+// This test uses separate threads for client and server to avoid
+// the two event loops intermixing, as we are writing in a busy loop here.
+
+if (process.env.HAS_STARTED_WORKER) {
+  const server = http2.createServer();
+  server.on('stream', (stream) => {
+    stream.respond({
+      'content-type': 'text/plain',
+      ':status': 200
+    });
+    stream.end('Hello, world!\n');
+  });
+  server.listen(0, () => parentPort.postMessage(server.address().port));
+  return;
+}
+
+process.env.HAS_STARTED_WORKER = 1;
+const worker = new Worker(__filename).on('message', common.mustCall((port) => {
+  const h2header = Buffer.alloc(9);
+  const conn = net.connect(port);
+
+  conn.write('PRI * HTTP/2.0\r\n\r\nSM\r\n\r\n');
+
+  h2header[3] = 4;  // Send a settings frame.
+  conn.write(Buffer.from(h2header));
+
+  let inbuf = Buffer.alloc(0);
+  let state = 'settingsHeader';
+  let settingsFrameLength;
+  conn.on('data', (chunk) => {
+    inbuf = Buffer.concat([inbuf, chunk]);
+    switch (state) {
+      case 'settingsHeader':
+        if (inbuf.length < 9) return;
+        settingsFrameLength = inbuf.readIntBE(0, 3);
+        inbuf = inbuf.slice(9);
+        state = 'readingSettings';
+        // Fallthrough
+      case 'readingSettings':
+        if (inbuf.length < settingsFrameLength) return;
+        inbuf = inbuf.slice(settingsFrameLength);
+        h2header[3] = 4;  // Send a settings ACK.
+        h2header[4] = 1;
+        conn.write(Buffer.from(h2header));
+        state = 'ignoreInput';
+        writeRequests();
+    }
+  });
+
+  let gotError = false;
+
+  function writeRequests() {
+    for (let i = 1; !gotError; i += 2) {
+      h2header[3] = 1;  // HEADERS
+      h2header[4] = 0x5;  // END_HEADERS|END_STREAM
+      h2header.writeIntBE(1, 0, 3);  // Length: 1
+      h2header.writeIntBE(i, 5, 4);  // Stream ID
+      // 0x88 = :status: 200
+      conn.write(Buffer.concat([h2header, Buffer.from([0x88])]));
+    }
+  }
+
+  conn.once('error', common.mustCall(() => {
+    gotError = true;
+    worker.terminate();
+    conn.destroy();
+  }));
+}));