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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Subject: [PATCH] gitweb: Make $prevent_xss protection for 'blob_plain' more usable
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:01:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106101401.19108.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1307177015-880-1-git-send-email-jnareb@gmail.com>

One of mechanism enabled by setting $prevent_xss to true is 'blob_plain'
view protection.  With XSS prevention on, blobs of all types except a
few known safe ones are served with "Content-Disposition: attachment" to
make sure they don't run in our security domain.

Instead of serving text/* type files, except text/plain (and including
text/html), as attachements, downgrade it to text/plain.  This way HTML
pages in 'blob_plain' (raw) wiew would be displayed in browser, but
safely as a source, and not asked to be saved.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
This is what GitHub interface does for text/html pages (*.html), if
I remember it correctly...

 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 85acbed..470793a 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -6139,7 +6139,15 @@ sub git_blob_plain {
 	# want to be sure not to break that by serving the image as an
 	# attachment (though Firefox 3 doesn't seem to care).
 	my $sandbox = $prevent_xss &&
-		$type !~ m!^(?:text/plain|image/(?:gif|png|jpeg))(?:[ ;]|$)!;
+		$type !~ m!^(?:text/[a-z]+|image/(?:gif|png|jpeg))(?:[ ;]|$)!;
+
+	# serve text/* as text/plain
+	if ($prevent_xss &&
+	    $type =~ m!^text/([a-z]+)\b(.*)$!) {
+		my ($subtype, $rest) = ($1, $2);
+		$rest = defined $rest ? $rest : '';
+		$type = "text/plain$rest" if ($subtype ne 'plain');
+	}
 
 	print $cgi->header(
 		-type => $type,
-- 
1.7.5

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-10 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-04  8:43 [PATCH] gitweb: Fix usability of $prevent_xss Jakub Narebski
2011-06-04 21:15 ` Prevalence " Matt McCutchen
2011-06-04 21:53   ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-05  9:03   ` Implementing CSP (Content Security Policy) for gitweb in the future Jakub Narebski
2011-06-05 12:52     ` Matt McCutchen
2011-06-05 13:33       ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-05 16:46         ` Matt McCutchen
2011-06-08 10:27           ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-08 17:31             ` J.H.
2011-06-10 12:01 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-06-13 16:47   ` [PATCH] gitweb: Make $prevent_xss protection for 'blob_plain' more usable Junio C Hamano
2011-06-13 21:49     ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-13 23:12       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-14  1:33         ` Jakub Narebski

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