If alias was used in a location given by a regular expression,
nginx used to do wrong thing in try_files if a location name (i.e.,
regular expression) was an exact prefix of URI. The following
configuration triggered a segmentation fault on a request to "/mail":
location ~ /mail {
alias /path/to/directory;
try_files $uri =404;
}
Reported by Per Hansson.
*e.pos = '\0';
- if (alias && ngx_strncmp(name, clcf->name.data, alias) == 0) {
+ if (alias && alias != NGX_MAX_SIZE_T_VALUE
+ && ngx_strncmp(name, clcf->name.data, alias) == 0)
+ {
ngx_memmove(name, name + alias, len - alias);
path.len -= alias;
}