language: reject excessively large Accept-Language strings

The BCP 47 tag parser has quadratic time complexity due to inherent
aspects of its design. Since the parser is, by design, exposed to
untrusted user input, this can be leveraged to force a program to
consume significant time parsing Accept-Language headers.

The parser cannot be easily rewritten to fix this behavior for
various reasons. Instead the solution implemented in this CL is to
limit the total complexity of tags passed into ParseAcceptLanguage
by limiting the number of dashes in the string to 1000. This should
be more than enough for the majority of real world use cases, where
the number of tags being sent is likely to be in the single digits.

Thanks to the OSS-Fuzz project for discovering this issue and to Adam
Korczynski (ADA Logics) for writing the fuzz case and for reporting the
issue.

Fixes CVE-2022-32149
Fixes golang/go#56152

Change-Id: I7bda1d84cee2b945039c203f26869d58ee9374ae
Reviewed-on: https://team-review.git.corp.google.com/c/golang/go-private/+/1565112
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tatiana Bradley <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/text/+/442235
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <[email protected]>
Auto-Submit: Roland Shoemaker <[email protected]>
Run-TryBot: Roland Shoemaker <[email protected]>

Author: rolandshoemaker

language/parse.go

@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ func update(b *language.Builder, part ...interface{}) (err error) {
 }
 
 var errInvalidWeight = errors.New("ParseAcceptLanguage: invalid weight")
+var errTagListTooLarge = errors.New("tag list exceeds max length")
 
 // ParseAcceptLanguage parses the contents of an Accept-Language header as
 // defined in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt and returns a list of Tags and
@@ -164,6 +165,10 @@ func ParseAcceptLanguage(s string) (tag []Tag, q []float32, err error) {
 		}
 	}()
 
+	if strings.Count(s, "-") > 1000 {
+		return nil, nil, errTagListTooLarge
+	}
+
 	var entry string
 	for s != "" {
 		if entry, s = split(s, ','); entry == "" {

language/parse_test.go

@@ -394,3 +394,16 @@ func TestParseAcceptLanguage(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestParseAcceptLanguageTooBig(t *testing.T) {
+	s := strings.Repeat("en-x-a-", 333)
+	_, _, err := ParseAcceptLanguage(s)
+	if err != language.ErrSyntax {
+		t.Errorf("ParseAcceptLanguage() unexpected error: got %v, want %v", err, language.ErrSyntax)
+	}
+	s += "en-x-a"
+	_, _, err = ParseAcceptLanguage(s)
+	if err != errTagListTooLarge {
+		t.Errorf("ParseAcceptLanguage() unexpected error: got %v, want %v", err, errTagListTooLarge)
+	}
+}