From 0060fd1511b94c918928fa3708f69a3f33895a4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:20:39 +0200 Subject: clone --recurse-submodules: prevent name squatting on Windows In addition to preventing `.git` from being tracked by Git, on Windows we also have to prevent `git~1` from being tracked, as the default NTFS short name (also known as the "8.3 filename") for the file name `.git` is `git~1`, otherwise it would be possible for malicious repositories to write directly into the `.git/` directory, e.g. a `post-checkout` hook that would then be executed _during_ a recursive clone. When we implemented appropriate protections in 2b4c6efc821 (read-cache: optionally disallow NTFS .git variants, 2014-12-16), we had analyzed carefully that the `.git` directory or file would be guaranteed to be the first directory entry to be written. Otherwise it would be possible e.g. for a file named `..git` to be assigned the short name `git~1` and subsequently, the short name generated for `.git` would be `git~2`. Or `git~3`. Or even `~9999999` (for a detailed explanation of the lengths we have to go to protect `.gitmodules`, see the commit message of e7cb0b4455c (is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files, 2018-05-11)). However, by exploiting two issues (that will be addressed in a related patch series close by), it is currently possible to clone a submodule into a non-empty directory: - On Windows, file names cannot end in a space or a period (for historical reasons: the period separating the base name from the file extension was not actually written to disk, and the base name/file extension was space-padded to the full 8/3 characters, respectively). Helpfully, when creating a directory under the name, say, `sub.`, that trailing period is trimmed automatically and the actual name on disk is `sub`. This means that while Git thinks that the submodule names `sub` and `sub.` are different, they both access `.git/modules/sub/`. - While the backslash character is a valid file name character on Linux, it is not so on Windows. As Git tries to be cross-platform, it therefore allows backslash characters in the file names stored in tree objects. Which means that it is totally possible that a submodule `c` sits next to a file `c\..git`, and on Windows, during recursive clone a file called `..git` will be written into `c/`, of course _before_ the submodule is cloned. Note that the actual exploit is not quite as simple as having a submodule `c` next to a file `c\..git`, as we have to make sure that the directory `.git/modules/b` already exists when the submodule is checked out, otherwise a different code path is taken in `module_clone()` that does _not_ allow a non-empty submodule directory to exist already. Even if we will address both issues nearby (the next commit will disallow backslash characters in tree entries' file names on Windows, and another patch will disallow creating directories/files with trailing spaces or periods), it is a wise idea to defend in depth against this sort of attack vector: when submodules are cloned recursively, we now _require_ the directory to be empty, addressing CVE-2019-1349. Note: the code path we patch is shared with the code path of `git submodule update --init`, which must not expect, in general, that the directory is empty. Hence we have to introduce the new option `--force-init` and hand it all the way down from `git submodule` to the actual `git submodule--helper` process that performs the initial clone. Reported-by: Nicolas Joly Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- builtin/submodule--helper.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'builtin/submodule--helper.c') diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c index 676cfed770..79156fac45 100644 --- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c +++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ #include "remote.h" #include "refs.h" #include "connect.h" +#include "dir.h" static char *get_default_remote(void) { @@ -623,6 +624,7 @@ static int module_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) char *p, *path = NULL, *sm_gitdir; struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; struct string_list reference = STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP; + int require_init = 0; char *sm_alternate = NULL, *error_strategy = NULL; struct option module_clone_options[] = { @@ -647,6 +649,8 @@ static int module_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) OPT__QUIET(&quiet, "Suppress output for cloning a submodule"), OPT_BOOL(0, "progress", &progress, N_("force cloning progress")), + OPT_BOOL(0, "require-init", &require_init, + N_("disallow cloning into non-empty directory")), OPT_END() }; @@ -685,6 +689,8 @@ static int module_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) die(_("clone of '%s' into submodule path '%s' failed"), url, path); } else { + if (require_init && !access(path, X_OK) && !is_empty_dir(path)) + die(_("directory not empty: '%s'"), path); if (safe_create_leading_directories_const(path) < 0) die(_("could not create directory '%s'"), path); strbuf_addf(&sb, "%s/index", sm_gitdir); @@ -733,6 +739,7 @@ struct submodule_update_clone { int quiet; int recommend_shallow; struct string_list references; + unsigned require_init; const char *depth; const char *recursive_prefix; const char *prefix; @@ -748,7 +755,7 @@ struct submodule_update_clone { int failed_clones_nr, failed_clones_alloc; }; #define SUBMODULE_UPDATE_CLONE_INIT {0, MODULE_LIST_INIT, 0, \ - SUBMODULE_UPDATE_STRATEGY_INIT, 0, 0, -1, STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, \ + SUBMODULE_UPDATE_STRATEGY_INIT, 0, 0, -1, STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, 0, \ NULL, NULL, NULL, \ STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP, 0, NULL, 0, 0} @@ -850,6 +857,8 @@ static int prepare_to_clone_next_submodule(const struct cache_entry *ce, argv_array_pushl(&child->args, "--prefix", suc->prefix, NULL); if (suc->recommend_shallow && sub->recommend_shallow == 1) argv_array_push(&child->args, "--depth=1"); + if (suc->require_init) + argv_array_push(&child->args, "--require-init"); argv_array_pushl(&child->args, "--path", sub->path, NULL); argv_array_pushl(&child->args, "--name", sub->name, NULL); argv_array_pushl(&child->args, "--url", sub->url, NULL); @@ -992,6 +1001,8 @@ static int update_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) OPT__QUIET(&suc.quiet, N_("don't print cloning progress")), OPT_BOOL(0, "progress", &suc.progress, N_("force cloning progress")), + OPT_BOOL(0, "require-init", &suc.require_init, + N_("disallow cloning into non-empty directory")), OPT_END() }; -- cgit v1.2.3 From a8dee3ca610f5a1d403634492136c887f83b59d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 23:27:18 +0200 Subject: Disallow dubiously-nested submodule git directories Currently it is technically possible to let a submodule's git directory point right into the git dir of a sibling submodule. Example: the git directories of two submodules with the names `hippo` and `hippo/hooks` would be `.git/modules/hippo/` and `.git/modules/hippo/hooks/`, respectively, but the latter is already intended to house the former's hooks. In most cases, this is just confusing, but there is also a (quite contrived) attack vector where Git can be fooled into mistaking remote content for file contents it wrote itself during a recursive clone. Let's plug this bug. To do so, we introduce the new function `validate_submodule_git_dir()` which simply verifies that no git dir exists for any leading directories of the submodule name (if there are any). Note: this patch specifically continues to allow sibling modules names of the form `core/lib`, `core/doc`, etc, as long as `core` is not a submodule name. This fixes CVE-2019-1387. Reported-by: Nicolas Joly Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- builtin/submodule--helper.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'builtin/submodule--helper.c') diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c index 79156fac45..3376b1bb29 100644 --- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c +++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c @@ -678,6 +678,10 @@ static int module_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) } else path = xstrdup(path); + if (validate_submodule_git_dir(sm_gitdir, name) < 0) + die(_("refusing to create/use '%s' in another submodule's " + "git dir"), sm_gitdir); + if (!file_exists(sm_gitdir)) { if (safe_create_leading_directories_const(sm_gitdir) < 0) die(_("could not create directory '%s'"), sm_gitdir); -- cgit v1.2.3