From: Matthew DeVore <matvore@comcast.net>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
Matthew DeVore <matvore@google.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, jeffhost@microsoft.com, l.s.r@web.de,
gitster@pobox.com, spearce@spearce.org, jrn@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] url: do not allow %00 to represent NULL in URLs
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 10:38:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190604173818.GL4641@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190604010243.GR8616@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 01:02:43AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> It looks like several of the places we do this are in the credential
> manager code, and I think I can agree that usernames and passwords
> should not contain NUL characters (for Basic auth, RFC 7617 prohibits
> it). It also seems that the credential code decodes the path parameter
> before passing it on, which is unfortunate, but can't be changed for
> backward compatibility reasons.
>
> And then the other instances are a file: URL in remote-testsvn.c and
> query parameters that have no reason to contain NULs in http-backend.c.
OK. Good to know that there is no justification to support %00 in URLs.
> So I think overall this is fine, although we probably want to change the
> commit summary to say "NUL" instead of "NULL".
Applied for the next roll-up. Thank you for taking a look.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-04 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-03 20:45 [PATCH 0/2] Harden url.c URL-decoding logic Matthew DeVore
2019-06-03 20:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] url: do not read past end of buffer Matthew DeVore
2019-06-04 5:00 ` René Scharfe
2019-06-04 17:22 ` Matthew DeVore
2019-06-03 20:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] url: do not allow %00 to represent NULL in URLs Matthew DeVore
2019-06-04 1:02 ` brian m. carlson
2019-06-04 17:38 ` Matthew DeVore [this message]
2019-06-04 5:01 ` René Scharfe
2019-06-04 17:23 ` Matthew DeVore
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