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doc/bugs.mdwn

@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@
   "Host key verification failed."
   I think that the setuid isn't fully taking; it should be running as me,
   but commit log shows www-data. So maybe it has the wrong username?
+* Can't put the source in a directory named .source; the page finder skips
+  that due to too broad exclusion of any dotfile in a path.

doc/security.mdwn

@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ Even with locking, if an attacker has local write access to the checkout,
 they could still fool ikiwiki using similar races. So it's best if only one
 person can ever write to the checkout that ikiwiki compiles the moo from.
 
+## webserver symlink attacks
+
+If someone checks in a symlink to /etc/passwd, ikiwiki would publish that.
+To aoid this, ikiwiki will need to avoid reading files that are symlinks.
+TODO and note discussion of races above.
+
 ## cgi security
 
 When ikiwiki runs as a cgi to edit a page, it is passed the name of the
@@ -82,4 +88,4 @@ editing of ../../../foo, or editing of files that are not part of the wiki,
 such as subversion dotfiles. This is done by sanitising the filename
 removing unallowed characters, then making sure it doesn't start with "/"
 or contain ".." or "/.svn/". Annoyingly ad-hoc, this kind of code is where
-security holes breed.
+security holes breed. It needs a test suite at the very least.

doc/todo.mdwn

@@ -6,12 +6,9 @@
 * No support for web user tracking/login yet.
 * Doesn't svn commit yet.
 
-## [[RecentChanges]]
+## recentchanges
 
-This will need to be another cgi script, that grubs through the
-[[Subversion]] logs.
-
-This should support RSS for notification of new and changed pages.
+Should support RSS for notification of new and changed pages.
 
 ## page history
 

ikiwiki

@@ -701,6 +701,7 @@ sub cgi () {
 		print $q->header,
 		      $q->start_html("Creating $page"),
 		      $q->start_h1("<a href=\"$url\">$wikiname</a>/ Creating $page"),
+		      $q->end_hi,
 		      $q->start_form(-action => $action),
 		      $q->hidden('do'),
 		      "Select page location:",
@@ -728,6 +729,7 @@ sub cgi () {
 		print $q->header,
 		      $q->start_html("Editing $page"),
 		      $q->h1("<a href=\"$url\">$wikiname</a>/ Editing $page"),
+		      $q->end_hi,
 		      $q->start_form(-action => $action),
 		      $q->hidden('do'),
 		      $q->hidden('page'),