nginx: fix CVE-2026-42055

A heap memory buffer overflow might occur in a worker process when using
a configuration with "ignore_invalid_headers off;" and
"large_client_header_buffers" with large configured values when
proxying a specially crafted request to gRPC backend, allowing an attacker
to cause worker process memory corruption or segmentation fault in a
worker process.

This is a partial cherry-pick of 131be8514da8985b15b74150521afedbf9cc4ea3
since ngx_http_proxy_v2_module.c does not exist in nginx 1.24

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Robin (Schneider Electric) <benjamin.robin@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@oss.qualcomm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Benjamin Robin (Schneider Electric)
2026-07-16 15:49:44 +05:30
committed by Anuj Mittal
parent e802c281bf
commit 7eb9410758
2 changed files with 103 additions and 0 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
From 2782212e79ea4d1bdd4ab0f13ac24555a5ebbc0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 19:37:17 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] Upstream: limit header length for HTTP/2 and gRPC
The change applies the HTTP/2 header length limits to avoid buffer
overflow. See 58a7bc3406ac for details.
Reported by Mufeed VH of Winfunc Research.
CVE: CVE-2026-42055
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/131be8514da8985b15b74150521afedbf9cc4ea3]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Robin <benjamin.robin@bootlin.com>
---
src/http/modules/ngx_http_grpc_module.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/http/modules/ngx_http_grpc_module.c b/src/http/modules/ngx_http_grpc_module.c
index dfe49c58618c..f7473b11aa3e 100644
--- a/src/http/modules/ngx_http_grpc_module.c
+++ b/src/http/modules/ngx_http_grpc_module.c
@@ -740,6 +740,12 @@ ngx_http_grpc_create_request(ngx_http_request_t *r)
tmp_len = 0;
} else {
+ if (r->method_name.len > NGX_HTTP_V2_MAX_FIELD) {
+ ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ERR, r->connection->log, 0,
+ "too long http2 method: \"%V\"", &r->method_name);
+ return NGX_ERROR;
+ }
+
len += 1 + NGX_HTTP_V2_INT_OCTETS + r->method_name.len;
tmp_len = r->method_name.len;
}
@@ -760,6 +766,12 @@ ngx_http_grpc_create_request(ngx_http_request_t *r)
uri_len = r->uri.len + escape + sizeof("?") - 1 + r->args.len;
}
+ if (uri_len > NGX_HTTP_V2_MAX_FIELD) {
+ ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ERR, r->connection->log, 0,
+ "too long http2 URI");
+ return NGX_ERROR;
+ }
+
len += 1 + NGX_HTTP_V2_INT_OCTETS + uri_len;
if (tmp_len < uri_len) {
@@ -769,6 +781,12 @@ ngx_http_grpc_create_request(ngx_http_request_t *r)
/* :authority header */
if (!glcf->host_set) {
+ if (ctx->host.len > NGX_HTTP_V2_MAX_FIELD) {
+ ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ERR, r->connection->log, 0,
+ "too long http2 host: \"%V\"", &ctx->host);
+ return NGX_ERROR;
+ }
+
len += 1 + NGX_HTTP_V2_INT_OCTETS + ctx->host.len;
if (tmp_len < ctx->host.len) {
@@ -799,6 +817,18 @@ ngx_http_grpc_create_request(ngx_http_request_t *r)
continue;
}
+ if (key_len > NGX_HTTP_V2_MAX_FIELD) {
+ ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ERR, r->connection->log, 0,
+ "too long http2 header name");
+ return NGX_ERROR;
+ }
+
+ if (val_len > NGX_HTTP_V2_MAX_FIELD) {
+ ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ERR, r->connection->log, 0,
+ "too long http2 header value");
+ return NGX_ERROR;
+ }
+
len += 1 + NGX_HTTP_V2_INT_OCTETS + key_len
+ NGX_HTTP_V2_INT_OCTETS + val_len;
@@ -833,6 +863,20 @@ ngx_http_grpc_create_request(ngx_http_request_t *r)
continue;
}
+ if (header[i].key.len > NGX_HTTP_V2_MAX_FIELD) {
+ ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ERR, r->connection->log, 0,
+ "too long http2 header name: \"%V\"",
+ &header[i].key);
+ return NGX_ERROR;
+ }
+
+ if (header[i].value.len > NGX_HTTP_V2_MAX_FIELD) {
+ ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ERR, r->connection->log, 0,
+ "too long http2 header value: \"%V: %V\"",
+ &header[i].key, &header[i].value);
+ return NGX_ERROR;
+ }
+
len += 1 + NGX_HTTP_V2_INT_OCTETS + header[i].key.len
+ NGX_HTTP_V2_INT_OCTETS + header[i].value.len;
--
2.54.0
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ SRC_URI:append = " \
file://CVE-2026-42946-02.patch \
file://CVE-2026-9256.patch \
file://CVE-2026-48142.patch \
file://CVE-2026-42055.patch \
"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "77a2541637b92a621e3ee76776c8b7b40cf6d707e69ba53a940283e30ff2f55d"