urlparse: accept '#' as end of host name

'http://example.com#@127.0.0.1/x.txt' equals a request to example.com
for the '/' document with the rest of the URL being a fragment.

CVE-2016-8624

Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102J.html
Reported-by: Fernando Muñoz

diff --git a/lib/url.c b/lib/url.c
index 91b2bf8f5c9310c2b0c7c74a160d25e39860d6b5..98236e21944088a8739dde70b5f1a393e34f9f2a 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/url.c
+++ b/lib/url.c
@@ -4164,7 +4164,7 @@ static CURLcode parseurlandfillconn(struct Curl_easy *data,
     path[0]=0;
 
     rc = sscanf(data->change.url,
-                "%15[^\n:]:%3[/]%[^\n/?]%[^\n]",
+                "%15[^\n:]:%3[/]%[^\n/?#]%[^\n]",
                 protobuf, slashbuf, conn->host.name, path);
     if(2 == rc) {
       failf(data, "Bad URL");
@@ -4176,7 +4176,7 @@ static CURLcode parseurlandfillconn(struct Curl_easy *data,
        * The URL was badly formatted, let's try the browser-style _without_
        * protocol specified like 'http://'.
        */
-      rc = sscanf(data->change.url, "%[^\n/?]%[^\n]", conn->host.name, path);
+      rc = sscanf(data->change.url, "%[^\n/?#]%[^\n]", conn->host.name, path);
       if(1 > rc) {
         /*
          * We couldn't even get this format.
@@ -4281,10 +4281,10 @@ static CURLcode parseurlandfillconn(struct Curl_easy *data,
   }
 
   /* If the URL is malformatted (missing a '/' after hostname before path) we
-   * insert a slash here. The only letter except '/' we accept to start a path
-   * is '?'.
+   * insert a slash here. The only letters except '/' that can start a path is
+   * '?' and '#' - as controlled by the two sscanf() patterns above.
    */
-  if(path[0] == '?') {
+  if(path[0] != '/') {
     /* We need this function to deal with overlapping memory areas. We know
        that the memory area 'path' points to is 'urllen' bytes big and that
        is bigger than the path. Use +1 to move the zero byte too. */