connect: reject ssh hostname that begins with a dash

When commands like "git fetch" talk with ssh://$rest_of_URL/, the
code splits $rest_of_URL into components like host, port, etc., and
then spawns the underlying "ssh" program by formulating argv[] array
that has:

 - the path to ssh command taken from GIT_SSH_COMMAND, etc.

 - dashed options like '-batch' (for Tortoise), '-p <port>' as
   needed.

 - ssh_host, which is supposed to be the hostname parsed out of
   $rest_of_URL.

 - then the command to be run on the other side, e.g. git
   upload-pack.

If the ssh_host ends up getting '-<anything>', the argv[] that is
used to spawn the command becomes something like:

    { "ssh", "-p", "22", "-<anything>", "command", "to", "run", NULL }

which obviously is bogus, but depending on the actual value of
"<anything>", will make "ssh" parse and use it as an option.

Prevent this by forbidding ssh_host that begins with a "-".

Noticed-by: Joern Schneeweisz of Recurity Labs
Reported-by: Brian at GitLab
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index fd7ffe1840..0e8e05d83a 100644
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -754,6 +754,9 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url,
 				return NULL;
 			}
 
+			if (ssh_host[0] == '-')
+				die("strange hostname '%s' blocked", ssh_host);
+
 			ssh = getenv("GIT_SSH_COMMAND");
 			if (!ssh) {
 				const char *base;