Fixed uninitialized memory read caused by stale regex captures.
When ngx_http_regex_exec() reallocates r->captures array, it doesn't update
r->ncaptures value, if regex didn't match. So the next use of unnamed regex
capture triggers uninitialized read and potential buffer overrun.
This config demonstrates the issue:
map test $my_map {
volatile;
~mismatch(.*) 1; # reallocates r->captures in subrequests
default "";
}
server {
location ~(.*) { # sets r->ncaptures
slice 50;
# $1 will read from uninitialized memory in slice subrequests
proxy_set_header Test $my_map$1;
proxy_set_header Range $slice_range;
proxy_pass http://backend;
}
}
The issue was introduced by
746fba0d79c6.