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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tree-walk: disallow overflowing modes
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 08:36:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk01esf0j.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <044bdc8f-fdc9-dfd2-6cbb-941513467524@web.de> ("René Scharfe"'s message of "Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:03:38 +0100")

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> We could be more strict and reject everything that oversteps
> S_IFMT|ALLPERMS, but the latter is not defined everywhere.  But
> permission bits are well-known, so the magic number 07777 should be
> recognizable enough.  Like this?

I do not quite see the reason why we want to be more strict than we
already are at this point in the code path.  Stricter mode check in
reports FSCK_MSG_ZERO_PADDED_FILEMODE and FSCK_MSG_BAD_FILEMODE from
"fsck", which I think is probably sufficient.

Avoiding integer wraparound is a good idea, even if it were
impossible to induce misparsing of the tree data to lead to any
security issues, for the same reason why we check for zero padded
filemode, i.e. such a tree mode will allow the same tree object to
be given different object names.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-22 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-21  9:36 [PATCH] tree-walk: disallow overflowing modes René Scharfe
2023-01-22  7:50 ` Jeff King
2023-01-22 10:03   ` René Scharfe
2023-01-22 16:36     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-01-22 22:02     ` Jeff King
2023-01-23  8:33 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-01-24 18:53   ` René Scharfe
2023-01-24 20:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-26 11:36       ` Jeff King

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