Bug 22378 - Crash submitting a form when parsing an XHTML document
Summary: Crash submitting a form when parsing an XHTML document
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Security (show other bugs)
Version: 525.x (Nightly build)
Hardware: All All
: P1 Normal
Assignee: Darin Adler
URL:
Keywords: HasReduction, InRadar
Depends on: 24922
Blocks:
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Reported: 2008-11-20 00:35 PST by Raghu
Modified: 2020-03-21 23:49 PDT (History)
5 users (show)

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Attachments
test case as attachment -- did not crash for me (731 bytes, application/xhtml+xml)
2008-11-20 02:02 PST, Eric Seidel (no email)
no flags Details
Test content, that crashes the webkit (788 bytes, application/xhtml+xml)
2008-11-20 02:13 PST, Raghu
no flags Details
Test page: Form Submit action Doesn't work. (768 bytes, application/xhtml+xml)
2008-11-20 03:02 PST, Raghu
no flags Details
HTML: Asserts, may crash (768 bytes, text/html)
2008-11-20 03:04 PST, Raghu
no flags Details
some work in progress (24.40 KB, patch)
2009-03-25 10:09 PDT, Darin Adler
no flags Details | Formatted Diff | Diff
more work in progress (40.77 KB, patch)
2009-03-26 09:46 PDT, Darin Adler
no flags Details | Formatted Diff | Diff
more work in progress (124.04 KB, patch)
2009-03-27 11:31 PDT, Darin Adler
no flags Details | Formatted Diff | Diff
almost done (48.66 KB, patch)
2009-03-29 12:29 PDT, Darin Adler
no flags Details | Formatted Diff | Diff
event closer to done (79.41 KB, patch)
2009-03-31 18:01 PDT, Darin Adler
no flags Details | Formatted Diff | Diff
even closer (86.47 KB, patch)
2009-04-01 09:47 PDT, Darin Adler
no flags Details | Formatted Diff | Diff
patch (92.16 KB, patch)
2009-04-01 14:23 PDT, Darin Adler
ggaren: review+
Details | Formatted Diff | Diff

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Description Raghu 2008-11-20 00:35:52 PST
I have pasted the test content below.
If this content is present in a .xhtml file, the webkit crashes. (Verified in Safari on Win XP with latest nightly, and in Chrome - It crashes there too.)

But, if the same content is served in a .html file, It works fine.

I am afraid, the XHTML content <--> JS bindings have serious issues in webkit.

Here's the test content:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC 
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>Form access </title>
</head>
<body style="background-color:white;border-left:0px;border-top:0px;overflow:hidden;" >
<form name="MyForm" method="POST" action="about:blank">
<input type="hidden" name="name" value=""></input>
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
document.MyForm.name.value="test";
document.MyForm.setAttribute("action","about:blank");
document.MyForm.submit();
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Comment 1 Eric Seidel (no email) 2008-11-20 02:02:25 PST
Created attachment 25305 [details]
test case as attachment -- did not crash for me
Comment 2 Raghu 2008-11-20 02:13:50 PST
Created attachment 25306 [details]
Test content, that crashes the webkit
Comment 3 Raghu 2008-11-20 02:34:24 PST
Hi All,

You are right Eric.

   Sorry.. I found that, on Safari & Chrome...
accessing forms as:
  document.forms.MyForm.name.value= "something";
causes the crash...

But, 

document.MyForm.name.value= "something";
doesn't crash, but doesn't work either.

I see that, the 'form submit' action is NOT happening in .xhtml file.
If you change the file name to .html, it works.
Comment 4 Raghu 2008-11-20 03:02:49 PST
Created attachment 25309 [details]
Test page: Form Submit action Doesn't work.
Comment 5 Raghu 2008-11-20 03:04:06 PST
Created attachment 25310 [details]
HTML: Asserts, may crash
Comment 6 Alexey Proskuryakov 2008-11-20 05:23:02 PST
Confirmed with r38590.

Marking attachments that do not demonstrate the problem as obsolete. This is not related to "document.MyForm" not being a proper way to access elements in XHTML documents in any way.
Comment 7 Alexey Proskuryakov 2008-11-20 05:48:31 PST
<rdar://problem/6388377>
Comment 8 Alexey Proskuryakov 2009-02-19 05:15:07 PST
Comment on attachment 25310 [details]
HTML: Asserts, may crash

In fact, the HTML version doesn't work right either - an assertion fails in debug builds, and looking at the code, we have the same problem with using a destroyed object.
Comment 9 Darin Adler 2009-03-25 10:09:30 PDT
Created attachment 28932 [details]
some work in progress
Comment 10 Darin Adler 2009-03-26 09:46:38 PDT
Created attachment 28971 [details]
more work in progress
Comment 11 Darin Adler 2009-03-27 11:31:45 PDT
Created attachment 29017 [details]
more work in progress
Comment 12 Darin Adler 2009-03-27 14:18:47 PDT
Alexey thinks there may be security impact, so moving to the security product.
Comment 13 Darin Adler 2009-03-29 12:29:45 PDT
Created attachment 29047 [details]
almost done

This patch is almost ready to go.

Here's what remains:

    1) A few layout tests are failing. Two of them are failing because our behavior now matches Firefox, tests for a crash when submitting a form from an onunload handler. Not sure how to fix those two. One other is failing because back/forward is working differently. Not sure if it's a regression or progression, and how to fix it if it's a progression.

    2) No change log yet.

    3) Haven't changed the test case into a regression test yet.
Comment 14 Darin Adler 2009-03-31 18:01:14 PDT
Created attachment 29149 [details]
event closer to done
Comment 15 Darin Adler 2009-04-01 09:47:30 PDT
Created attachment 29161 [details]
even closer
Comment 16 Darin Adler 2009-04-01 14:23:51 PDT
Created attachment 29178 [details]
patch
Comment 17 Geoffrey Garen 2009-04-01 14:47:05 PDT
Comment on attachment 29178 [details]
patch

r=me
Comment 18 Darin Adler 2009-04-01 18:02:29 PDT
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/42158