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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>,
	'git' <git@vger.kernel.org>, 'Elijah Newren' <newren@gmail.com>,
	'Brandon Williams' <bwilliams.eng@gmail.com>,
	'Johannes Schindelin' <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow adding .git files and directories
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:53:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200822185307.GZ8085@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200822162152.2be1d024@luklap>

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On 2020-08-22 at 14:21:52, Lukas Straub wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 22:52:37 +0000
> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 2020-08-21 at 12:39:41, Lukas Straub wrote:
> > > The downsides we discussed don't apply in this usecase. These are mostly
> > > personal files, so I wont upload them to any hosting site (not even private
> > > ones). There is no security impact as I only sync with trusted devices.  
> > 
> > I realize this works for you, but in general Git's security model does
> > not permit untrusted configuration files or hooks.  Configuration can
> > have numerous different commands that Git may execute and it is not, in
> > general, safe to share across users.  This is why Git does not provide a
> > way to sync whole repositories, only the objects within them.
> > 
> > Adding the ability to transport configuration through a repository is a
> > security problem because it allows an attacker to potentially execute
> > arbitrary code on the user's machine, and I can tell you that many, many
> > people do clone untrusted repositories.  Just because you are aware of
> > the risks, are comfortable with them, and are the only user in this
> > scenario does not mean that this feature is a prudent one to add to Git.
> > It violates our own security model, and as such, isn't a feature we're
> > going to want to add.
> 
> I don't understand. If the attacker gets the user to set git config options,
> then all hope is lost anyways, no?

When you can embed repositories in other repositories like you're
proposing, those embedded repositories can have configuration files in
them (e.g., .git/config), which leads to the security problem.
-- 
brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-22 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-19 16:43 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow adding .git files and directories Lukas Straub
2020-08-19 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] dir/read-cache: " Lukas Straub
2020-08-19 16:43 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] dir: Recurse into nested git repos if they aren't submodules Lukas Straub
2020-08-19 18:03 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow adding .git files and directories Junio C Hamano
2020-08-19 18:47   ` Randall S. Becker
2020-08-19 19:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-19 19:23       ` Randall S. Becker
2020-08-19 20:17       ` Jeff King
2020-08-19 20:32         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-19 20:38           ` Jeff King
2020-08-19 21:56             ` Randall S. Becker
2020-08-20 10:16             ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-20 11:34             ` Lukas Straub
2020-08-20 13:01               ` Jeff King
2020-08-21 12:39                 ` Lukas Straub
2020-08-21 13:11                   ` Randall S. Becker
2020-08-21 22:52                   ` brian m. carlson
2020-08-22 14:21                     ` Lukas Straub
2020-08-22 18:53                       ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2020-08-22 19:12                         ` Lukas Straub
2020-08-24 13:52                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-20 12:37         ` Lukas Straub
2020-08-20 13:08           ` Jeff King
2020-08-19 19:22     ` Lukas Straub
2020-08-19 18:47   ` Lukas Straub
2020-08-19 19:16     ` Randall S. Becker
2020-08-20 11:46       ` Lukas Straub

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