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http-backend: Protect GIT_PROJECT_ROOT from /../ requests

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Eons ago HPA taught git-daemon how to protect itself from /../
attacks, which Junio brought back into service in d79374c7b5
("daemon.c and path.enter_repo(): revamp path validation").

I did not carry this into git-http-backend as originally we relied
only upon PATH_TRANSLATED, and assumed the HTTP server had done
its access control checks to validate the resolved path was within
a directory permitting access from the remote client.  This would
usually be sufficient to protect a server from requests for its
/etc/passwd file by http://host/smart/../etc/passwd sorts of URLs.

However in 917adc0360 Mark Lodato added GIT_PROJECT_ROOT as an
additional method of configuring the CGI.  When this environment
variable is used the web server does not generate the final access
path and therefore may blindly pass through "/../etc/passwd"
in PATH_INFO under the assumption that "/../" might have special
meaning to the invoked CGI.

Instead of permitting these sorts of malformed path requests, we
now reject them back at the client, with an error message for the
server log.  This matches git-daemon behavior.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Shawn O. Pearce
2009-11-09 11:26:43 -08:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 92815b3363
commit 34b6cb8bb0
5 changed files with 86 additions and 48 deletions
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@ -559,7 +559,13 @@ static char* getdir(void)
if (root && *root) {
if (!pathinfo || !*pathinfo)
die("GIT_PROJECT_ROOT is set but PATH_INFO is not");
if (daemon_avoid_alias(pathinfo))
die("'%s': aliased", pathinfo);
strbuf_addstr(&buf, root);
if (buf.buf[buf.len - 1] != '/')
strbuf_addch(&buf, '/');
if (pathinfo[0] == '/')
pathinfo++;
strbuf_addstr(&buf, pathinfo);
return strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
} else if (path && *path) {