From: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>,
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu>,
Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] be paranoid about closed stdin/stdout/stderr
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:58:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080828135846.GA6874@cuci.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B6A57A.6050109@gnu.org>
Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> It is either run by ssh (via command="" option in authorized_keys file),
>> by init/login (if in /etc/passwd), or by gitosis (and its equivalent).
>It is possible to run it with file descriptors closed via ssh, using
>command="git-shell 0<&- 1<&- 2<&-" in the authorized_keys file.
I don't consider this that relevant, however...
>It's true that in this case the user is also shooting himself, but given
>that git-shell is used to restrict operation to "safe" commands, this
>special case might be worth being worked around.
Since a programmer error in this case doesn't inflict just pain on the
user, but also is a potential security leak that can potentially be
exploited by third party users, things are different, and it is worth
catering for.
--
Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
"Listen carefully, I shall say this only wence."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-25 8:28 [PATCH] Fix start_command() pipe bug when stdin is closed Karl Chen
2008-08-25 10:44 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-25 11:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-25 12:00 ` [PATCH v2] fix start_command() " Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-25 13:12 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-25 13:37 ` [PATCH v2 properly indented] " Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-25 16:00 ` Karl Chen
2008-08-26 0:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-26 6:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-26 6:33 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-26 6:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-26 6:48 ` [PATCH] be paranoid about closed stdin/stdout/stderr Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-26 6:57 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-26 7:40 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-08-27 5:01 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-27 9:18 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-08-27 12:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-27 15:20 ` [PATCH v4] make git-shell " Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-27 17:22 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-08-27 17:27 ` [PATCH] be " Junio C Hamano
2008-08-28 13:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-28 13:58 ` Stephen R. van den Berg [this message]
2008-08-27 18:22 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-08-28 12:21 ` Nick Andrew
2008-08-28 12:52 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-08-26 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-26 18:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-26 22:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-26 23:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-26 23:10 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-08-27 3:05 ` Karl Chen
2008-08-27 4:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-27 9:04 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-08-27 6:35 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-08-27 8:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-08-27 2:04 ` Nick Andrew
2008-08-25 15:56 ` [PATCH] Fix start_command() pipe bug when stdin is closed Karl Chen
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