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Valentin Kleibel
controller: Handle UnicodeDecodeError from webob decoding invalid URLs

webob will try to utf-8 decode all %-encoded bytes in URL-parameters, but will
not handle Unicode erors ... and neither did Kallithea. Visiting a URL like
http://localhost:5000/?%AD would thus give an unhandled exception showing
"Internal Server Error" to the user, and logging the full traceback and:

WebApp Error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xad in position 0: invalid start byte

This has been seen a lot recently from attackers probing for a php
vulnerability
https://devco.re/blog/2024/06/06/security-alert-cve-2024-4577-php-cgi-argument-injection-vulnerability-en/ .

Now handle these exceptions more nicely and reject with "400 Bad Request".
# kallithea - run the kallithea daemon as an upstart job
# Change variables/paths as necessary and place file /etc/init/kallithea.conf
# start/stop/restart as normal upstart job (ie: $ start kallithea)

description     "Kallithea Mercurial Server"
author          "Matt Zuba <matt.zuba@goodwillaz.org"

start on (local-filesystems and runlevel [2345])
stop on runlevel [!2345]

respawn

umask 0022

env PIDFILE=/var/hg/kallithea/kallithea.pid
env LOGFILE=/var/hg/kallithea/log/kallithea.log
env APPINI=/var/hg/kallithea/production.ini
env HOME=/var/hg
env USER=hg
env GROUP=hg

exec /var/hg/.virtualenvs/kallithea/bin/gearbox serve --user=$USER --group=$GROUP --pid-file=$PIDFILE --log-file=$LOGFILE -c $APPINI

post-stop script
    rm -f $PIDFILE
end script