submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
Submodule "names" come from the untrusted .gitmodules file,
but we blindly append them to $GIT_DIR/modules to create our
on-disk repo paths. This means you can do bad things by
putting "../" into the name (among other things).
Let's sanity-check these names to avoid building a path that
can be exploited. There are two main decisions:
1. What should the allowed syntax be?
It's tempting to reuse verify_path(), since submodule
names typically come from in-repo paths. But there are
two reasons not to:
a. It's technically more strict than what we need, as
we really care only about breaking out of the
$GIT_DIR/modules/ hierarchy. E.g., having a
submodule named "foo/.git" isn't actually
dangerous, and it's possible that somebody has
manually given such a funny name.
b. Since we'll eventually use this checking logic in
fsck to prevent downstream repositories, it should
be consistent across platforms. Because
verify_path() relies on is_dir_sep(), it wouldn't
block "foo\..\bar" on a non-Windows machine.
2. Where should we enforce it? These days most of the
.gitmodules reads go through submodule-config.c, so
I've put it there in the reading step. That should
cover all of the C code.
We also construct the name for "git submodule add"
inside the git-submodule.sh script. This is probably
not a big deal for security since the name is coming
from the user anyway, but it would be polite to remind
them if the name they pick is invalid (and we need to
expose the name-checker to the shell anyway for our
test scripts).
This patch issues a warning when reading .gitmodules
and just ignores the related config entry completely.
This will generally end up producing a sensible error,
as it works the same as a .gitmodules file which is
missing a submodule entry (so "submodule update" will
barf, but "git clone --recurse-submodules" will print
an error but not abort the clone.
There is one minor oddity, which is that we print the
warning once per malformed config key (since that's how
the config subsystem gives us the entries). So in the
new test, for example, the user would see three
warnings. That's OK, since the intent is that this case
should never come up outside of malicious repositories
(and then it might even benefit the user to see the
message multiple times).
Credit for finding this vulnerability and the proof of
concept from which the test script was adapted goes to
Etienne Stalmans.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2018-04-30 09:25:25 +02:00
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#!/bin/sh
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test_description='check handling of .. in submodule names
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Exercise the name-checking function on a variety of names, and then give a
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real-world setup that confirms we catch this in practice.
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'
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. ./test-lib.sh
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index-pack: check .gitmodules files with --strict
Now that the internal fsck code has all of the plumbing we
need, we can start checking incoming .gitmodules files.
Naively, it seems like we would just need to add a call to
fsck_finish() after we've processed all of the objects. And
that would be enough to cover the initial test included
here. But there are two extra bits:
1. We currently don't bother calling fsck_object() at all
for blobs, since it has traditionally been a noop. We'd
actually catch these blobs in fsck_finish() at the end,
but it's more efficient to check them when we already
have the object loaded in memory.
2. The second pass done by fsck_finish() needs to access
the objects, but we're actually indexing the pack in
this process. In theory we could give the fsck code a
special callback for accessing the in-pack data, but
it's actually quite tricky:
a. We don't have an internal efficient index mapping
oids to packfile offsets. We only generate it on
the fly as part of writing out the .idx file.
b. We'd still have to reconstruct deltas, which means
we'd basically have to replicate all of the
reading logic in packfile.c.
Instead, let's avoid running fsck_finish() until after
we've written out the .idx file, and then just add it
to our internal packed_git list.
This does mean that the objects are "in the repository"
before we finish our fsck checks. But unpack-objects
already exhibits this same behavior, and it's an
acceptable tradeoff here for the same reason: the
quarantine mechanism means that pushes will be
fully protected.
In addition to a basic push test in t7415, we add a sneaky
pack that reverses the usual object order in the pack,
requiring that index-pack access the tree and blob during
the "finish" step.
This already works for unpack-objects (since it will have
written out loose objects), but we'll check it with this
sneaky pack for good measure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2018-05-05 01:45:01 +02:00
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. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-pack.sh
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submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
Submodule "names" come from the untrusted .gitmodules file,
but we blindly append them to $GIT_DIR/modules to create our
on-disk repo paths. This means you can do bad things by
putting "../" into the name (among other things).
Let's sanity-check these names to avoid building a path that
can be exploited. There are two main decisions:
1. What should the allowed syntax be?
It's tempting to reuse verify_path(), since submodule
names typically come from in-repo paths. But there are
two reasons not to:
a. It's technically more strict than what we need, as
we really care only about breaking out of the
$GIT_DIR/modules/ hierarchy. E.g., having a
submodule named "foo/.git" isn't actually
dangerous, and it's possible that somebody has
manually given such a funny name.
b. Since we'll eventually use this checking logic in
fsck to prevent downstream repositories, it should
be consistent across platforms. Because
verify_path() relies on is_dir_sep(), it wouldn't
block "foo\..\bar" on a non-Windows machine.
2. Where should we enforce it? These days most of the
.gitmodules reads go through submodule-config.c, so
I've put it there in the reading step. That should
cover all of the C code.
We also construct the name for "git submodule add"
inside the git-submodule.sh script. This is probably
not a big deal for security since the name is coming
from the user anyway, but it would be polite to remind
them if the name they pick is invalid (and we need to
expose the name-checker to the shell anyway for our
test scripts).
This patch issues a warning when reading .gitmodules
and just ignores the related config entry completely.
This will generally end up producing a sensible error,
as it works the same as a .gitmodules file which is
missing a submodule entry (so "submodule update" will
barf, but "git clone --recurse-submodules" will print
an error but not abort the clone.
There is one minor oddity, which is that we print the
warning once per malformed config key (since that's how
the config subsystem gives us the entries). So in the
new test, for example, the user would see three
warnings. That's OK, since the intent is that this case
should never come up outside of malicious repositories
(and then it might even benefit the user to see the
message multiple times).
Credit for finding this vulnerability and the proof of
concept from which the test script was adapted goes to
Etienne Stalmans.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2018-04-30 09:25:25 +02:00
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test_expect_success 'check names' '
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cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
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valid
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valid/with/paths
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EOF
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git submodule--helper check-name >actual <<-\EOF &&
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valid
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valid/with/paths
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../foo
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/../foo
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..\foo
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\..\foo
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foo/..
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foo/../
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foo\..
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foo\..\
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foo/../bar
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EOF
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test_cmp expect actual
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'
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test_expect_success 'create innocent subrepo' '
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git init innocent &&
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git -C innocent commit --allow-empty -m foo
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'
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test_expect_success 'submodule add refuses invalid names' '
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test_must_fail \
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git submodule add --name ../../modules/evil "$PWD/innocent" evil
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'
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test_expect_success 'add evil submodule' '
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git submodule add "$PWD/innocent" evil &&
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mkdir modules &&
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cp -r .git/modules/evil modules &&
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write_script modules/evil/hooks/post-checkout <<-\EOF &&
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echo >&2 "RUNNING POST CHECKOUT"
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EOF
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git config -f .gitmodules submodule.evil.update checkout &&
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git config -f .gitmodules --rename-section \
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submodule.evil submodule.../../modules/evil &&
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git add modules &&
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git commit -am evil
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'
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# This step seems like it shouldn't be necessary, since the payload is
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# contained entirely in the evil submodule. But due to the vagaries of the
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# submodule code, checking out the evil module will fail unless ".git/modules"
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# exists. Adding another submodule (with a name that sorts before "evil") is an
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# easy way to make sure this is the case in the victim clone.
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test_expect_success 'add other submodule' '
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git submodule add "$PWD/innocent" another-module &&
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git add another-module &&
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git commit -am another
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'
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test_expect_success 'clone evil superproject' '
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git clone --recurse-submodules . victim >output 2>&1 &&
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! grep "RUNNING POST CHECKOUT" output
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'
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2018-05-02 23:20:35 +02:00
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test_expect_success 'fsck detects evil superproject' '
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test_must_fail git fsck
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'
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2018-05-05 01:40:08 +02:00
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test_expect_success 'transfer.fsckObjects detects evil superproject (unpack)' '
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rm -rf dst.git &&
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git init --bare dst.git &&
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git -C dst.git config transfer.fsckObjects true &&
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test_must_fail git push dst.git HEAD
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'
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index-pack: check .gitmodules files with --strict
Now that the internal fsck code has all of the plumbing we
need, we can start checking incoming .gitmodules files.
Naively, it seems like we would just need to add a call to
fsck_finish() after we've processed all of the objects. And
that would be enough to cover the initial test included
here. But there are two extra bits:
1. We currently don't bother calling fsck_object() at all
for blobs, since it has traditionally been a noop. We'd
actually catch these blobs in fsck_finish() at the end,
but it's more efficient to check them when we already
have the object loaded in memory.
2. The second pass done by fsck_finish() needs to access
the objects, but we're actually indexing the pack in
this process. In theory we could give the fsck code a
special callback for accessing the in-pack data, but
it's actually quite tricky:
a. We don't have an internal efficient index mapping
oids to packfile offsets. We only generate it on
the fly as part of writing out the .idx file.
b. We'd still have to reconstruct deltas, which means
we'd basically have to replicate all of the
reading logic in packfile.c.
Instead, let's avoid running fsck_finish() until after
we've written out the .idx file, and then just add it
to our internal packed_git list.
This does mean that the objects are "in the repository"
before we finish our fsck checks. But unpack-objects
already exhibits this same behavior, and it's an
acceptable tradeoff here for the same reason: the
quarantine mechanism means that pushes will be
fully protected.
In addition to a basic push test in t7415, we add a sneaky
pack that reverses the usual object order in the pack,
requiring that index-pack access the tree and blob during
the "finish" step.
This already works for unpack-objects (since it will have
written out loose objects), but we'll check it with this
sneaky pack for good measure.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2018-05-05 01:45:01 +02:00
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test_expect_success 'transfer.fsckObjects detects evil superproject (index)' '
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rm -rf dst.git &&
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git init --bare dst.git &&
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git -C dst.git config transfer.fsckObjects true &&
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git -C dst.git config transfer.unpackLimit 1 &&
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test_must_fail git push dst.git HEAD
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'
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# Normally our packs contain commits followed by trees followed by blobs. This
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# reverses the order, which requires backtracking to find the context of a
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# blob. We'll start with a fresh gitmodules-only tree to make it simpler.
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test_expect_success 'create oddly ordered pack' '
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git checkout --orphan odd &&
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git rm -rf --cached . &&
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git add .gitmodules &&
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git commit -m odd &&
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{
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pack_header 3 &&
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pack_obj $(git rev-parse HEAD:.gitmodules) &&
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pack_obj $(git rev-parse HEAD^{tree}) &&
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pack_obj $(git rev-parse HEAD)
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} >odd.pack &&
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pack_trailer odd.pack
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'
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test_expect_success 'transfer.fsckObjects handles odd pack (unpack)' '
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rm -rf dst.git &&
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git init --bare dst.git &&
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test_must_fail git -C dst.git unpack-objects --strict <odd.pack
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'
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test_expect_success 'transfer.fsckObjects handles odd pack (index)' '
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rm -rf dst.git &&
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git init --bare dst.git &&
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test_must_fail git -C dst.git index-pack --strict --stdin <odd.pack
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'
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index-pack: handle --strict checks of non-repo packs
Commit 73c3f0f704 (index-pack: check .gitmodules files with
--strict, 2018-05-04) added a call to add_packed_git(), with
the intent that the newly-indexed objects would be available
to the process when we run fsck_finish(). But that's not
what add_packed_git() does. It only allocates the struct,
and you must install_packed_git() on the result. So that
call was effectively doing nothing (except leaking a
struct).
But wait, we passed all of the tests! Does that mean we
don't need the call at all?
For normal cases, no. When we run "index-pack --stdin"
inside a repository, we write the new pack into the object
directory. If fsck_finish() needs to access one of the new
objects, then our initial lookup will fail to find it, but
we'll follow up by running reprepare_packed_git() and
looking again. That logic was meant to handle somebody else
repacking simultaneously, but it ends up working for us
here.
But there is a case that does need this, that we were not
testing. You can run "git index-pack foo.pack" on any file,
even when it is not inside the object directory. Or you may
not even be in a repository at all! This case fails without
doing the proper install_packed_git() call.
We can make this work by adding the install call.
Note that we should be prepared to handle add_packed_git()
failing. We can just silently ignore this case, though. If
fsck_finish() later needs the objects and they're not
available, it will complain itself. And if it doesn't
(because we were able to resolve the whole fsck in the first
pass), then it actually isn't an interesting error at all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-01 00:45:31 +02:00
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test_expect_success 'index-pack --strict works for non-repo pack' '
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|
rm -rf dst.git &&
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|
|
git init --bare dst.git &&
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|
|
cp odd.pack dst.git &&
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|
test_must_fail git -C dst.git index-pack --strict odd.pack 2>output &&
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|
# Make sure we fail due to bad gitmodules content, not because we
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# could not read the blob in the first place.
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grep gitmodulesName output
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'
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|
2018-05-05 02:03:35 +02:00
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|
test_expect_success 'fsck detects symlinked .gitmodules file' '
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|
|
git init symlink &&
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|
|
(
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|
|
cd symlink &&
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|
# Make the tree directly to avoid index restrictions.
|
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|
|
#
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|
# Because symlinks store the target as a blob, choose
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|
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# a pathname that could be parsed as a .gitmodules file
|
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|
|
# to trick naive non-symlink-aware checking.
|
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|
|
tricky="[foo]bar=true" &&
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|
|
content=$(git hash-object -w ../.gitmodules) &&
|
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|
|
target=$(printf "$tricky" | git hash-object -w --stdin) &&
|
2018-06-11 10:35:40 +02:00
|
|
|
{
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|
|
printf "100644 blob $content\t$tricky\n" &&
|
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|
|
printf "120000 blob $target\t.gitmodules\n"
|
|
|
|
} | git mktree &&
|
2018-05-05 02:03:35 +02:00
|
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|
|
# Check not only that we fail, but that it is due to the
|
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|
|
# symlink detector; this grep string comes from the config
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|
|
# variable name and will not be translated.
|
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|
|
test_must_fail git fsck 2>output &&
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|
|
grep gitmodulesSymlink output
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|
|
)
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|
'
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|
2018-06-11 10:35:45 +02:00
|
|
|
test_expect_success 'fsck detects non-blob .gitmodules' '
|
|
|
|
git init non-blob &&
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|
|
|
(
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|
|
cd non-blob &&
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
# As above, make the funny tree directly to avoid index
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|
|
# restrictions.
|
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|
|
mkdir subdir &&
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|
|
cp ../.gitmodules subdir/file &&
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|
|
git add subdir/file &&
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|
|
git commit -m ok &&
|
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|
|
git ls-tree HEAD | sed s/subdir/.gitmodules/ | git mktree &&
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|
|
test_must_fail git fsck 2>output &&
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|
|
grep gitmodulesBlob output
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|
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)
|
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|
'
|
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|
|
2018-06-29 00:06:04 +02:00
|
|
|
test_expect_success 'fsck detects corrupt .gitmodules' '
|
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|
|
git init corrupt &&
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|
|
|
(
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|
|
cd corrupt &&
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
echo "[broken" >.gitmodules &&
|
|
|
|
git add .gitmodules &&
|
|
|
|
git commit -m "broken gitmodules" &&
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|
|
|
|
fsck: downgrade gitmodulesParse default to "info"
We added an fsck check in ed8b10f631 (fsck: check
.gitmodules content, 2018-05-02) as a defense against the
vulnerability from 0383bbb901 (submodule-config: verify
submodule names as paths, 2018-04-30). With the idea that
up-to-date hosting sites could protect downstream unpatched
clients that fetch from them.
As part of that defense, we reject any ".gitmodules" entry
that is not syntactically valid. The theory is that if we
cannot even parse the file, we cannot accurately check it
for vulnerabilities. And anybody with a broken .gitmodules
file would eventually want to know anyway.
But there are a few reasons this is a bad tradeoff in
practice:
- for this particular vulnerability, the client has to be
able to parse the file. So you cannot sneak an attack
through using a broken file, assuming the config parsers
for the process running fsck and the eventual victim are
functionally equivalent.
- a broken .gitmodules file is not necessarily a problem.
Our fsck check detects .gitmodules in _any_ tree, not
just at the root. And the presence of a .gitmodules file
does not necessarily mean it will be used; you'd have to
also have gitlinks in the tree. The cgit repository, for
example, has a file named .gitmodules from a
pre-submodule attempt at sharing code, but does not
actually have any gitlinks.
- when the fsck check is used to reject a push, it's often
hard to work around. The pusher may not have full control
over the destination repository (e.g., if it's on a
hosting server, they may need to contact the hosting
site's support). And the broken .gitmodules may be too
far back in history for rewriting to be feasible (again,
this is an issue for cgit).
So we're being unnecessarily restrictive without actually
improving the security in a meaningful way. It would be more
convenient to downgrade this check to "info", which means
we'd still comment on it, but not reject a push. Site admins
can already do this via config, but we should ship sensible
defaults.
There are a few counterpoints to consider in favor of
keeping the check as an error:
- the first point above assumes that the config parsers for
the victim and the fsck process are equivalent. This is
pretty true now, but as time goes on will become less so.
Hosting sites are likely to upgrade their version of Git,
whereas vulnerable clients will be stagnant (if they did
upgrade, they'd cease to be vulnerable!). So in theory we
may see drift over time between what two config parsers
will accept.
In practice, this is probably OK. The config format is
pretty established at this point and shouldn't change a
lot. And the farther we get from the announcement of the
vulnerability, the less interesting this extra layer of
protection becomes. I.e., it was _most_ valuable on day
0, when everybody's client was still vulnerable and
hosting sites could protect people. But as time goes on
and people upgrade, the population of vulnerable clients
becomes smaller and smaller.
- In theory this could protect us from other
vulnerabilities in the future. E.g., .gitmodules are the
only way for a malicious repository to feed data to the
config parser, so this check could similarly protect
clients from a future (to-be-found) bug there.
But that's trading a hypothetical case for real-world
pain today. If we do find such a bug, the hosting site
would need to be updated to fix it, too. At which point
we could figure out whether it's possible to detect
_just_ the malicious case without hurting existing
broken-but-not-evil cases.
- Until recently, we hadn't made any restrictions on
.gitmodules content. So now in tightening that we're
hitting cases where certain things used to work, but
don't anymore. There's some moderate pain now. But as
time goes on, we'll see more (and more varied) cases that
will make tightening harder in the future. So there's
some argument for putting rules in place _now_, before
users grow more cases that violate them.
Again, this is trading pain now for hypothetical benefit
in the future. And if we try hard in the future to keep
our tightening to a minimum (i.e., rejecting true
maliciousness without hurting broken-but-not-evil repos),
then that reduces even the hypothetical benefit.
Considering both sets of arguments, it makes sense to loosen
this check for now.
Note that we have to tweak the test in t7415 since fsck will
no longer consider this a fatal error. But we still check
that it reports the warning, and that we don't get the
spurious error from the config code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-13 21:39:58 +02:00
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submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths
Submodule "names" come from the untrusted .gitmodules file,
but we blindly append them to $GIT_DIR/modules to create our
on-disk repo paths. This means you can do bad things by
putting "../" into the name (among other things).
Let's sanity-check these names to avoid building a path that
can be exploited. There are two main decisions:
1. What should the allowed syntax be?
It's tempting to reuse verify_path(), since submodule
names typically come from in-repo paths. But there are
two reasons not to:
a. It's technically more strict than what we need, as
we really care only about breaking out of the
$GIT_DIR/modules/ hierarchy. E.g., having a
submodule named "foo/.git" isn't actually
dangerous, and it's possible that somebody has
manually given such a funny name.
b. Since we'll eventually use this checking logic in
fsck to prevent downstream repositories, it should
be consistent across platforms. Because
verify_path() relies on is_dir_sep(), it wouldn't
block "foo\..\bar" on a non-Windows machine.
2. Where should we enforce it? These days most of the
.gitmodules reads go through submodule-config.c, so
I've put it there in the reading step. That should
cover all of the C code.
We also construct the name for "git submodule add"
inside the git-submodule.sh script. This is probably
not a big deal for security since the name is coming
from the user anyway, but it would be polite to remind
them if the name they pick is invalid (and we need to
expose the name-checker to the shell anyway for our
test scripts).
This patch issues a warning when reading .gitmodules
and just ignores the related config entry completely.
This will generally end up producing a sensible error,
as it works the same as a .gitmodules file which is
missing a submodule entry (so "submodule update" will
barf, but "git clone --recurse-submodules" will print
an error but not abort the clone.
There is one minor oddity, which is that we print the
warning once per malformed config key (since that's how
the config subsystem gives us the entries). So in the
new test, for example, the user would see three
warnings. That's OK, since the intent is that this case
should never come up outside of malicious repositories
(and then it might even benefit the user to see the
message multiple times).
Credit for finding this vulnerability and the proof of
concept from which the test script was adapted goes to
Etienne Stalmans.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
2018-04-30 09:25:25 +02:00
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