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authorJeff Halter <868228+jhalter@users.noreply.github.com>2026-05-31 14:48:31 -0700
committerJeff Halter <868228+jhalter@users.noreply.github.com>2026-05-31 14:48:31 -0700
commit123d1a305bc68474034f5989362148508bdbf7f5 (patch)
tree341a0030c5a1a9abfaa73fa31bd59c7e5c216bf7 /hotline/panic.go
parent588dce918aeda0efc4db80b30525d28943c029cd (diff)
Validate client input to prevent panics from malformed transactions
A malicious or buggy client could send transaction fields with the wrong length and trigger runtime panics (slice/index out of range, slice-to-array conversion, nil deref) in the parsing and handler code. These were caught by the connection-level recover, so they dropped the client connection and dumped a stack trace to stdout rather than crashing the process, but they are still incorrect behavior, a log-flood vector, and a latent crash if the recover scope ever changes. Fix at the source and harden the safety net: - Add ClientIDFromBytes / ChatIDFromBytes helpers that return ok=false on a length mismatch, and use them in the transaction handlers instead of direct [2]byte(...) / [4]byte(...) conversions on field data. Nil-check ClientMgr.Get results, and length-guard FieldOptions and the HandleUpdateUser sub-field header. Malformed input now yields an error reply (or a clean no-op for reply-less handlers) instead of panicking. - Bounds-check FileResumeData.UnmarshalBinary (header length and fork count) and guard the ForkInfoList[0] accesses against an empty list. - Bounds-check FlatFileInformationFork parsing (reachable on upload): validate the fixed header, name, and comment lengths, and fix a latent 72+nameSize uint16 overflow. Route Write through UnmarshalBinary. - panic.go: stop printing stack traces to stdout (keep structured logging) so a client cannot flood stdout by repeatedly triggering a panic. - handleTransaction: recover per-transaction so one malformed request no longer tears down the whole client connection. Adds tests for the new helpers, the hardened resume-data and flat-file-object decoders, and handler-level malformed-ID handling.
Diffstat (limited to 'hotline/panic.go')
-rw-r--r--hotline/panic.go7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/hotline/panic.go b/hotline/panic.go
index d7376db..2207911 100644
--- a/hotline/panic.go
+++ b/hotline/panic.go
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
package hotline
import (
- "fmt"
"log/slog"
"runtime/debug"
)
-// dontPanic logs panics instead of crashing
+// dontPanic recovers from a panic and logs it (with a stack trace) instead of
+// letting it crash the goroutine. The trace is recorded via the structured
+// logger only; it is intentionally not written to stdout, so a client that can
+// repeatedly trigger a panic cannot flood stdout.
func dontPanic(logger *slog.Logger) {
if r := recover(); r != nil {
- fmt.Println("stacktrace from panic: \n" + string(debug.Stack()))
logger.Error("PANIC", "err", r, "trace", string(debug.Stack()))
}
}