ikiwiki's web interface does not currently have UI for removing
multiple pages simultaneously, but the remove plugin is robust
against doing so. Use a clearer idiom to make that obvious.
These instances of code similar to OVE-20170111-0001 are not believed
to be exploitable, because defined(), length(), setpassword(),
userinfo_set() and the binary "." operator all have prototypes that
force the relevant argument to be evaluated in scalar context. However,
using a safer idiom makes mistakes less likely.
(cherry picked from commit 69230a2220f673c66b5ab875bfc759b32a241c0d)
Calling CGI::FormBuilder::field with a name argument in list context
returns zero or more user-specified values of the named field, even
if that field was not declared as supporting multiple values.
Passing the result of field as a function parameter counts as list
context. This is the same bad behaviour that is now discouraged
for CGI::param.
In this case we pass the multiple values to CGI::Session::param.
That accessor has six possible calling conventions, of which four are
documented. If an attacker passes (2*n + 1) values for the 'name'
field, for example name=a&name=b&name=c, we end up in one of the
undocumented calling conventions for param:
# equivalent to: (name => 'a', b => 'c')
$session->param('name', 'a', 'b', 'c')
and the 'b' session parameter is unexpectedly set to an
attacker-specified value.
In particular, if an attacker "bob" specifies
name=bob&name=name&name=alice, then authentication is carried out
for "bob" but the CGI::Session ends up containing {name => 'alice'},
an authentication bypass vulnerability.
This vulnerability is tracked as OVE-20170111-0001.
(cherry picked from commit e909eb93f4530a175d622360a8433e833ecf0254)
The Debian security tracker gets timely updates, whereas the official
CVE pages hosted by MITRE tend to show up as "RESERVED" for several
weeks or months after assignment.
git_sha1 already puts "--" before its arguments, so
git_sha1_file($dir, 'doc/index.mdwn')
would have incorrectly invoked
git rev-list --max-count=1 HEAD -- -- doc/index.mdwn
If there is no file in the wiki named "--", that's harmless, because
it merely names the latest revision in which either "--" or
"doc/index.mdwn" changed. However, it could return incorrect results
if there is somehow a file named "--".
If we throw an exception (usually from run_or_die), in_git_dir won't
unshift the current directory from the stack. That's usually fine,
but in rcs_preprevert we catch exceptions and do some cleanup before
returning, for which we need the git directory to be the root and
not the temporary working tree.
Some of these might be relatively expensive to dereference or result
in messages being logged, and there's no reason why a search engine
should need to index them. (In particular, we'd probably prefer search
engines to index the rendered page, not its source code.)
We exclude .git/hooks from symlinking into the temporary working tree,
which avoids the commit hook being run for the temporary branch anyway.
This avoids the wiki not being updated if an orthogonal change is
received in process A, while process B prepares a revert that is
subsequently cancelled.
svetlana
smcv
openmedi
Simon McVittie
Amitai Schleier
https://anarc.at/openid/