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authorMatteo Collina <hello@matteocollina.com>2018-08-23 16:46:07 +0200
committerRod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>2018-11-28 11:36:34 +1100
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http,https: protect against slow headers attack
CVE-2018-12122 An attacker can send a char/s within headers and exahust the resources (file descriptors) of a system even with a tight max header length protection. This PR destroys a socket if it has not received the headers in 40s. PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/144 Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ This method is identical to [`server.listen()`][] from [`net.Server`][].
See [`http.Server#maxHeadersCount`][].
+### server.headersTimeout
+
+- {number} **Default:** `40000`
+
+See [`http.Server#headersTimeout`][].
+
### server.setTimeout([msecs][, callback])
<!-- YAML
added: v0.11.2
@@ -363,6 +369,7 @@ headers: max-age=0; pin-sha256="WoiWRyIOVNa9ihaBciRSC7XHjliYS9VwUGOIud4PB18="; p
[`http.Agent`]: http.html#http_class_http_agent
[`http.Server#keepAliveTimeout`]: http.html#http_server_keepalivetimeout
[`http.Server#maxHeadersCount`]: http.html#http_server_maxheaderscount
+[`http.Server#headersTimeout`]: http.html#http_server_headerstimeout
[`http.Server#setTimeout()`]: http.html#http_server_settimeout_msecs_callback
[`http.Server#timeout`]: http.html#http_server_timeout
[`http.Server`]: http.html#http_class_http_server