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authorRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2017-11-28 14:06:12 +0000
committerRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2017-11-29 16:00:46 +0000
commit7303ed65e1cb036ce410fa6157d131dfaf00171a (patch)
tree961329acc890a4da641ea26dc417aba62ebf4cc4 /synapse
parentMerge pull request #2697 from matrix-org/rav/fix_urlcache_index_error (diff)
downloadsynapse-7303ed65e1cb036ce410fa6157d131dfaf00171a.tar.xz
Fix 500 when joining matrix-dev
matrix-dev has an event (`$/6ANj/9QWQyd71N6DpRQPf+SDUu11+HVMeKSpMzBCwM:zemos.net`)
which has no `hashes` member.

Check for missing `hashes` element in events.
Diffstat (limited to 'synapse')
-rw-r--r--synapse/crypto/event_signing.py13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/crypto/event_signing.py b/synapse/crypto/event_signing.py
index 0d0e7b5286..aaa3efaca3 100644
--- a/synapse/crypto/event_signing.py
+++ b/synapse/crypto/event_signing.py
@@ -32,15 +32,22 @@ def check_event_content_hash(event, hash_algorithm=hashlib.sha256):
     """Check whether the hash for this PDU matches the contents"""
     name, expected_hash = compute_content_hash(event, hash_algorithm)
     logger.debug("Expecting hash: %s", encode_base64(expected_hash))
-    if name not in event.hashes:
+
+    # some malformed events lack a 'hashes'. Protect against it being missing
+    # or a weird type by basically treating it the same as an unhashed event.
+    hashes = event.get("hashes")
+    if not isinstance(hashes, dict):
+        raise SynapseError(400, "Malformed 'hashes'", Codes.UNAUTHORIZED)
+
+    if name not in hashes:
         raise SynapseError(
             400,
             "Algorithm %s not in hashes %s" % (
-                name, list(event.hashes),
+                name, list(hashes),
             ),
             Codes.UNAUTHORIZED,
         )
-    message_hash_base64 = event.hashes[name]
+    message_hash_base64 = hashes[name]
     try:
         message_hash_bytes = decode_base64(message_hash_base64)
     except Exception: