fix(users/Profpatsch/read-http): actually parse ascii r/2174

There might be exploits since we parsed the headers as utf8 even
though we actually want to interpret them as ASCII.

This fixes it, by using the ascii crate.

Thanks to @sterni for noticing.

Change-Id: I50b6a588d99b34e677cb22968cf0dfd8b331d11c
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/2457
Reviewed-by: Profpatsch <mail@profpatsch.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/users/Profpatsch/read-http/read-http.rs b/users/Profpatsch/read-http/read-http.rs
index a43bb7d3b20b..ab2c3887d7b5 100644
--- a/users/Profpatsch/read-http/read-http.rs
+++ b/users/Profpatsch/read-http/read-http.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 extern crate httparse;
 extern crate netencode;
 extern crate arglib_netencode;
+extern crate ascii;
 
 use std::os::unix::io::FromRawFd;
 use std::io::Read;
@@ -63,11 +64,11 @@ fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
     fn normalize_headers<'a>(headers: &'a [httparse::Header]) -> Vec<(String, &'a str)> {
         let mut res = vec![];
         for httparse::Header { name, value } in headers {
-            let val = std::str::from_utf8(*value)
-                .expect(&format!("read-http: we require header values to be UTF-8 (they should be ASCII), but the header {} was {:?}", name, value));
+            let val = ascii::AsciiStr::from_ascii(*value)
+                .expect(&format!("read-http: we require header values to be ASCII, but the header {} was {:?}", name, value));
             // lowercase the headers, since the standard doesn’t care
             // and we want unique strings to match agains
-            res.push((name.to_lowercase(), val))
+            res.push((name.to_lowercase(), val.as_str()))
         }
         res
     }