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authorRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2019-11-05 17:22:58 +0000
committerRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2019-11-05 17:22:58 +0000
commit81d49cbb07a4dc5a673e31a8a626af6e8a18f801 (patch)
treefeb0caffef241b54fc3fd90e0819c07d415326fb
parentApply suggestions from code review (diff)
downloadsynapse-81d49cbb07a4dc5a673e31a8a626af6e8a18f801.tar.xz
Fix exception when OpenGraph tag values are ints
-rw-r--r--changelog.d/6334.feature1
-rw-r--r--synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/changelog.d/6334.feature b/changelog.d/6334.feature
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eaf69ef3f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/6334.feature
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Limit the length of data returned by url previews, to prevent DoS attacks.
diff --git a/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py b/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
index 4d4b3c1462..ec9c4619c9 100644
--- a/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
+++ b/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
@@ -274,7 +274,8 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeResource):
         # filter out any stupidly long values
         keys_to_remove = []
         for k, v in og.items():
-            if len(k) > OG_TAG_NAME_MAXLEN or len(v) > OG_TAG_VALUE_MAXLEN:
+            # values can be numeric as well as strings, hence the cast to str
+            if len(k) > OG_TAG_NAME_MAXLEN or len(str(v)) > OG_TAG_VALUE_MAXLEN:
                 logger.warning(
                     "Pruning overlong tag %s from OG data", k[:OG_TAG_NAME_MAXLEN]
                 )