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[PATCH] cvsserver: Make req_Root more critical of its input data

From
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date
Jun 7, 2007, 14:57 UTC
Message-ID
<1181228221959-git-send-email-frank@lichtenheld.de>

The path submitted with the Root request has to be absolute (cvs does it this way and it may save us some sanity checks later)

If multiple roots are specified (e.g. because we use pserver authentication which will already include the root), ensure that they say all the same.

Probably neither is a security risk, and neither should ever be triggered by a sane client, but when validating input data, it's better to be save than sorry.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
---
 git-cvsserver.perl              |   11 +++++++++++
 t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-cvsserver.perl b/git-cvsserver.perl
index 2b4825a..d41b29f 100755
--- a/git-cvsserver.perl
+++ b/git-cvsserver.perl
@@ -167,6 +167,17 @@ sub req_Root
     my ( $cmd, $data ) = @_;
     $log->debug("req_Root : $data");
 
+    unless ($data =~ m#^/#) {
+	print "error 1 Root must be an absolute pathname\n";
+	return 0;
+    }
+
+    if ($state->{CVSROOT}
+	&& ($state->{CVSROOT} ne $data)) {
+	print "error 1 Conflicting roots specified\n";
+	return 0;
+    }
+
     $state->{CVSROOT} = $data;
 
     $ENV{GIT_DIR} = $state->{CVSROOT} . "/";
diff --git a/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh b/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
index e9ef315..41dcf64 100755
--- a/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
+++ b/t/t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh
@@ -110,6 +110,40 @@ test_expect_success 'pserver authentication failure (login/non-anonymous user)'
    tail -n1 log | grep -q "^I HATE YOU$"'
 
 
+# misuse pserver authentication for testing of req_Root
+
+cat >request-relative  <<EOF
+BEGIN AUTH REQUEST
+gitcvs.git
+anonymous
+
+END AUTH REQUEST
+EOF
+
+cat >request-conflict  <<EOF
+BEGIN AUTH REQUEST
+$SERVERDIR
+anonymous
+
+END AUTH REQUEST
+Root $WORKDIR
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success 'req_Root failure (relative pathname)' \
+  'if cat request-relative | git-cvsserver pserver >log 2>&1
+   then
+       echo unexpected success
+       false
+   else
+       true
+   fi &&
+   tail log | grep -q "^error 1 Root must be an absolute pathname$"'
+
+test_expect_success 'req_Root failure (conflicting roots)' \
+  'cat request-conflict | git-cvsserver pserver >log 2>&1 &&
+   tail log | grep -q "^error 1 Conflicting roots specified$"'
+
+
 #--------------
 # CONFIG TESTS
 #--------------
-- 
1.5.2.1
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