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This is briefly mentioned in the article, but from the report[1]: > It should be noted that the scope of the code reviewed within this audit is relatively narr
by lcampbell 3y ago
This is briefly mentioned in the article, but from the report[1]:
> It should be noted that the scope of the code reviewed within this audit is relatively narrow. In particular, while we audited cURL’s use of the third-party libraries ngtcp2, nghttp3, quiche, and msh3 to implement HTTP/3 functionality, we did not investigate the internals of those libraries—which is where the majority of the low-level parsing and data transformation necessitated by the HTTP/3 protocol occurs.
the report goes on to concede
> [we] did not observe any coverage of the nghttp3 library code. We suspect that, as the HTTP/3 protocol itself is significantly intertwined with TLS, the encryption makes it hard for a fuzzer to progress to the point where data can be decoded and parsed meaningfully.
[1] https://curl.se/docs/audit/trail-of-bits-http3-report.pdf https://curl.se/docs/audit/trail-of-bits-http3-report.pdf
- CaliforniaKarl 3y agoTo be clear, the "brief" reference is this: > Because of curl’s use of third party libraries for doing QUIC and HTTP/3, the report advises that there should be follow-up audits of the involved libraries. Fair proposal, but that is of course something that is beyond what we as a project can do. Indeed, the next thing would be for the third-party libraries to go through a similar audit!