git, branch v2.20.4

Git 2.20.4

2020-04-19T23:28:57Z

This merges up the security fix from v2.17.5. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder

Git 2.19.5

2020-04-19T23:26:41Z

This merges up the security fix from v2.17.5. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder

Git 2.18.4

2020-04-19T23:24:14Z

This merges up the security fix from v2.17.5. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder

Git 2.17.5

2020-04-19T23:10:58Z

Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder

fsck: reject URL with empty host in .gitmodules

2020-04-19T23:10:58Z

Git's URL parser interprets https:///example.com/repo.git to have no host and a path of "example.com/repo.git". Curl, on the other hand, internally redirects it to https://example.com/repo.git. As a result, until "credential: parse URL without host as empty host, not unset", tricking a user into fetching from such a URL would cause Git to send credentials for another host to example.com. Teach fsck to block and detect .gitmodules files using such a URL to prevent sharing them with Git versions that are not yet protected. A relative URL in a .gitmodules file could also be used to trigger this. The relative URL resolver used for .gitmodules does not normalize sequences of slashes and can follow ".." components out of the path part and to the host part of a URL, meaning that such a relative URL can be used to traverse from a https://foo.example.com/innocent superproject to a https:///attacker.example.com/exploit submodule. Fortunately, redundant extra slashes in .gitmodules are rare, so we can catch this by detecting one after a leading sequence of "./" and "../" components. Helped-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Reviewed-by: Jeff King

credential: treat URL with empty scheme as invalid

2020-04-19T23:10:58Z

Until "credential: refuse to operate when missing host or protocol", Git's credential handling code interpreted URLs with empty scheme to mean "give me credentials matching this host for any protocol". Luckily libcurl does not recognize such URLs (it tries to look for a protocol named "" and fails). Just in case that changes, let's reject them within Git as well. This way, credential_from_url is guaranteed to always produce a "struct credential" with protocol and host set. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder

credential: treat URL without scheme as invalid

2020-04-19T23:10:58Z

libcurl permits making requests without a URL scheme specified. In this case, it guesses the URL from the hostname, so I can run git ls-remote http::ftp.example.com/path/to/repo and it would make an FTP request. Any user intentionally using such a URL is likely to have made a typo. Unfortunately, credential_from_url is not able to determine the host and protocol in order to determine appropriate credentials to send, and until "credential: refuse to operate when missing host or protocol", this resulted in another host's credentials being leaked to the named host. Teach credential_from_url_gently to consider such a URL to be invalid so that fsck can detect and block gitmodules files with such URLs, allowing server operators to avoid serving them to downstream users running older versions of Git. This also means that when such URLs are passed on the command line, Git will print a clearer error so affected users can switch to the simpler URL that explicitly specifies the host and protocol they intend. One subtlety: .gitmodules files can contain relative URLs, representing a URL relative to the URL they were cloned from. The relative URL resolver used for .gitmodules can follow ".." components out of the path part and past the host part of a URL, meaning that such a relative URL can be used to traverse from a https://foo.example.com/innocent superproject to a https::attacker.example.com/exploit submodule. Fortunately a leading ':' in the first path component after a series of leading './' and '../' components is unlikely to show up in other contexts, so we can catch this by detecting that pattern. Reported-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Reviewed-by: Jeff King

credential: die() when parsing invalid urls

2020-04-19T23:10:58Z

When we try to initialize credential loading by URL and find that the URL is invalid, we set all fields to NULL in order to avoid acting on malicious input. Later when we request credentials, we diagonse the erroneous input: fatal: refusing to work with credential missing host field This is problematic in two ways: - The message doesn't tell the user *why* we are missing the host field, so they can't tell from this message alone how to recover. There can be intervening messages after the original warning of bad input, so the user may not have the context to put two and two together. - The error only occurs when we actually need to get a credential. If the URL permits anonymous access, the only encouragement the user gets to correct their bogus URL is a quiet warning. This is inconsistent with the check we perform in fsck, where any use of such a URL as a submodule is an error. When we see such a bogus URL, let's not try to be nice and continue without helpers. Instead, die() immediately. This is simpler and obviously safe. And there's very little chance of disrupting a normal workflow. It's _possible_ that somebody has a legitimate URL with a raw newline in it. It already wouldn't work with credential helpers, so this patch steps that up from an inconvenience to "we will refuse to work with it at all". If such a case does exist, we should figure out a way to work with it (especially if the newline is only in the path component, which we normally don't even pass to helpers). But until we see a real report, we're better off being defensive. Reported-by: Carlo Arenas Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder

fsck: convert gitmodules url to URL passed to curl

2020-04-19T23:10:58Z

In 07259e74ec1 (fsck: detect gitmodules URLs with embedded newlines, 2020-03-11), git fsck learned to check whether URLs in .gitmodules could be understood by the credential machinery when they are handled by git-remote-curl. However, the check is overbroad: it checks all URLs instead of only URLs that would be passed to git-remote-curl. In principle a git:// or file:/// URL does not need to follow the same conventions as an http:// URL; in particular, git:// and file:// protocols are not succeptible to issues in the credential API because they do not support attaching credentials. In the HTTP case, the URL in .gitmodules does not always match the URL that would be passed to git-remote-curl and the credential machinery: Git's URL syntax allows specifying a remote helper followed by a "::" delimiter and a URL to be passed to it, so that git ls-remote http::https://example.com/repo.git invokes git-remote-http with https://example.com/repo.git as its URL argument. With today's checks, that distinction does not make a difference, but for a check we are about to introduce (for empty URL schemes) it will matter. .gitmodules files also support relative URLs. To ensure coverage for the https based embedded-newline attack, urldecode and check them directly for embedded newlines. Helped-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Reviewed-by: Jeff King

credential: refuse to operate when missing host or protocol

2020-04-19T23:10:58Z

The credential helper protocol was designed to be very flexible: the fields it takes as input are treated as a pattern, and any missing fields are taken as wildcards. This allows unusual things like: echo protocol=https | git credential reject to delete all stored https credentials (assuming the helpers themselves treat the input that way). But when helpers are invoked automatically by Git, this flexibility works against us. If for whatever reason we don't have a "host" field, then we'd match _any_ host. When you're filling a credential to send to a remote server, this is almost certainly not what you want. Prevent this at the layer that writes to the credential helper. Add a check to the credential API that the host and protocol are always passed in, and add an assertion to the credential_write function that speaks credential helper protocol to be doubly sure. There are a few ways this can be triggered in practice: - the "git credential" command passes along arbitrary credential parameters it reads from stdin. - until the previous patch, when the host field of a URL is empty, we would leave it unset (rather than setting it to the empty string) - a URL like "example.com/foo.git" is treated by curl as if "http://" was present, but our parser sees it as a non-URL and leaves all fields unset - the recent fix for URLs with embedded newlines blanks the URL but otherwise continues. Rather than having the desired effect of looking up no credential at all, many helpers will return _any_ credential Our earlier test for an embedded newline didn't catch this because it only checked that the credential was cleared, but didn't configure an actual helper. Configuring the "verbatim" helper in the test would show that it is invoked (it's obviously a silly helper which doesn't look at its input, but the point is that it shouldn't be run at all). Since we're switching this case to die(), we don't need to bother with a helper. We can see the new behavior just by checking that the operation fails. We'll add new tests covering partial input as well (these can be triggered through various means with url-parsing, but it's simpler to just check them directly, as we know we are covered even if the url parser changes behavior in the future). [jn: changed to die() instead of logging and showing a manual username/password prompt] Reported-by: Carlo Arenas Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder