When performing a local clone of a repository we end up either copying
or hardlinking the source repository into the target repository. This is
significantly more performant than if we were to use git-upload-pack(1)
and git-fetch-pack(1) to create the new repository and preserves both
disk space and compute time.
Unfortunately though, performing such a local clone of a repository that
is not owned by the current user is inherently unsafe:
- It is possible that source files get swapped out underneath us while
we are copying or hardlinking them. While we do perform some checks
here to assert that we hardlinked the expected file, they cannot
reliably thwart time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) style races. It
is thus possible for an adversary to make us copy or hardlink
unexpected files into the target directory.
Ideally, we would address this by starting to use openat(3P),
fstatat(3P) and friends. Due to platform compatibility with Windows
we cannot easily do that though. Furthermore, the scope of these
fixes would likely be quite broad and thus not fit for an embargoed
security release.
- Even if we handled TOCTOU-style races perfectly, hardlinking files
owned by a different user into the target repository is not a good
idea in general. It is possible for an adversary to rewrite those
files to contain whatever data they want even after the clone has
completed.
Address these issues by completely refusing local clones of a repository
that is not owned by the current user. This reuses our existing infra we
have in place via `ensure_valid_ownership()` and thus allows a user to
override the safety guard by adding the source repository path to the
"safe.directory" configuration.
This addresses CVE-2024-32020.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Allow configuration files in "protected" scopes to include other
configuration files.
* gc/bare-repo-discovery:
config: respect includes in protected config
Protected config is implemented by reading a fixed set of paths,
which ignores config [include]-s. Replace this implementation with a
call to config_with_options(), which handles [include]-s and saves us
from duplicating the logic of 1) identifying which paths to read and 2)
reading command line config.
As a result, git_configset_add_parameters() is unused, so remove it. It
was introduced alongside protected config in 5b3c650777 (config: learn
`git_protected_config()`, 2022-07-14) as a way to handle command line
config.
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Mark those remaining tests that pass when run under SANITIZE=leak with
TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true, these were either omitted in
f346fcb62a (Merge branch 'ab/mark-leak-free-tests-even-more',
2021-12-15) and 5a4f8381b6 (Merge branch 'ab/mark-leak-free-tests',
2021-10-25), or have had their memory leaks fixed since then.
With this change there's now a a one-to-one mapping between those
tests that we have opted-in via "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true", and
those that pass with the new "check" mode:
GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=check \
GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true \
make test SANITIZE=leak
Note that the "GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true" is needed due to the
edge cases noted in a preceding commit, i.e. in some cases we'd pass
the test itself, but still have outstanding leaks due to ignored exit
codes.
The "GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true" corrects for that, we're only
marking those tests as passing that really don't have any leaks,
whether that was reflected in their exit code or not.
Note that the change here to "t9100-git-svn-basic.sh" is marking that
test as passing under SANITIZE=leak, we're removing a
"TEST_FAILS_SANITIZE_LEAK=true" line, not
"TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true". See 7a98d9ab00 (revisions API: have
release_revisions() release "cmdline", 2022-04-13) for the
introduction of that t/lib-git-svn.sh-specific variable.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use git_protected_config() to read `safe.directory` instead of
read_very_early_config(), making it 'protected configuration only'.
As a result, `safe.directory` now respects "-c", so update the tests and
docs accordingly. It used to ignore "-c" due to how it was implemented,
not because of security or correctness concerns [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqlevabcsu.fsf@gitster.g/
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of 'safe.directory' mentions that it's respected in
the system and global configs, and ignored in the repository config
and on the command line, but it doesn't mention whether it's respected
or ignored when specified via environment variables (nor does the
commit message adding 'safe.directory' [1]).
Clarify that 'safe.directory' is ignored when specified in the
environment, and add tests to make sure that it remains so.
[1] 8959555cee (setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the
top-level directory, 2022-03-02)
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
According to the documentation 'safe.directory' "is only respected
when specified in a system or global config, not when it is specified
in a repository config or via the command line option -c
safe.directory=<path>".
Add tests to check that 'safe.directory' in the repository config or
on the command line is indeed ignored.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 8959555cee (setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the
top-level directory, 2022-03-02) when git finds itself in a repository
owned by someone else, it aborts with a "fatal: unsafe repository
(<repo path>)" error message and an advice about how to set the
'safe.directory' config variable to mark that repository as safe.
't0033-safe-directory.sh' contains tests that check that this feature
and handling said config work as intended. To ensure that git dies
for the right reason, several of those tests check that its standard
error contains the name of that config variable, but:
- it only appears in the advice part, not in the actual error
message.
- it is interpreted as a regexp by 'grep', so, because of the dot,
it matches the name of the test script and the path of the trash
directory as well. Consequently, these tests could be fooled by
any error message that would happen to include the path of the
test repository.
Tighten these checks to look for "unsafe repository" instead.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the addition of the safe.directory in 8959555ce
(setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory,
2022-03-02) released in v2.35.2, we are receiving feedback from a
variety of users about the feature.
Some users have a very large list of shared repositories and find it
cumbersome to add this config for every one of them.
In a more difficult case, certain workflows involve running Git commands
within containers. The container boundary prevents any global or system
config from communicating `safe.directory` values from the host into the
container. Further, the container almost always runs as a different user
than the owner of the directory in the host.
To simplify the reactions necessary for these users, extend the
definition of the safe.directory config value to include a possible '*'
value. This value implies that all directories are safe, providing a
single setting to opt-out of this protection.
Note that an empty assignment of safe.directory clears all previous
values, and this is already the case with the "if (!value || !*value)"
condition.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It seems that nothing is ever checking to make sure the safe directories
in the configs actually have the key safe.directory, so some unrelated
config that has a value with a certain directory would also make it a
safe directory.
Signed-off-by: Matheus Valadares <me@m28.io>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is difficult to change the ownership on a directory in our test
suite, so insert a new GIT_TEST_ASSUME_DIFFERENT_OWNER environment
variable to trick Git into thinking we are in a differently-owned
directory. This allows us to test that the config is parsed correctly.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>