git, branch v2.30.5

Git 2.30.5

2022-06-23T10:31:05Z

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin

setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765

2022-06-23T10:31:05Z

8959555cee7 (setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory, 2022-03-02), adds a function to check for ownership of repositories using a directory that is representative of it, and ways to add exempt a specific repository from said check if needed, but that check didn't account for owership of the gitdir, or (when used) the gitfile that points to that gitdir. An attacker could create a git repository in a directory that they can write into but that is owned by the victim to work around the fix that was introduced with CVE-2022-24765 to potentially run code as the victim. An example that could result in privilege escalation to root in *NIX would be to set a repository in a shared tmp directory by doing (for example): $ git -C /tmp init To avoid that, extend the ensure_valid_ownership function to be able to check for all three paths. This will have the side effect of tripling the number of stat() calls when a repository is detected, but the effect is expected to be likely minimal, as it is done only once during the directory walk in which Git looks for a repository. Additionally make sure to resolve the gitfile (if one was used) to find the relevant gitdir for checking. While at it change the message printed on failure so it is clear we are referring to the repository by its worktree (or gitdir if it is bare) and not to a specific directory. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón

Merge branch 'cb/path-owner-check-with-sudo'

2022-06-23T10:31:04Z

With a recent update to refuse access to repositories of other people by default, "sudo make install" and "sudo git describe" stopped working. This series intends to loosen it while keeping the safety. * cb/path-owner-check-with-sudo: t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin

git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned

2022-06-17T21:03:08Z

Previous changes introduced a regression which will prevent root for accessing repositories owned by thyself if using sudo because SUDO_UID takes precedence. Loosen that restriction by allowing root to access repositories owned by both uid by default and without having to add a safe.directory exception. A previous workaround that was documented in the tests is no longer needed so it has been removed together with its specially crafted prerequisite. Helped-by: Johanness Schindelin Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo

2022-05-13T01:12:23Z

Add a support library that provides one function that can be used to run a "scriplet" of commands through sudo and that helps invoking sudo in the slightly awkward way that is required to ensure it doesn't block the call (if shell was allowed as tested in the prerequisite) and it doesn't run the command through a different shell than the one we intended. Add additional negative tests as suggested by Junio and that use a new workspace that is owned by root. Document a regression that was introduced by previous commits where root won't be able anymore to access directories they own unless SUDO_UID is removed from their environment. The tests document additional ways that this new restriction could be worked around and the documentation explains why it might be instead considered a feature, but a "fix" is planned for a future change. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano Helped-by: Phillip Wood Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged

2022-05-13T01:12:23Z

bdc77d1d685 (Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the current user, 2022-03-02) checks for the effective uid of the running process using geteuid() but didn't account for cases where that user was root (because git was invoked through sudo or a compatible tool) and the original uid that repository trusted for its config was no longer known, therefore failing the following otherwise safe call: guy@renard ~/Software/uncrustify $ sudo git describe --always --dirty [sudo] password for guy: fatal: unsafe repository ('/home/guy/Software/uncrustify' is owned by someone else) Attempt to detect those cases by using the environment variables that those tools create to keep track of the original user id, and do the ownership check using that instead. This assumes the environment the user is running on after going privileged can't be tampered with, and also adds code to restrict that the new behavior only applies if running as root, therefore keeping the most common case, which runs unprivileged, from changing, but because of that, it will miss cases where sudo (or an equivalent) was used to change to another unprivileged user or where the equivalent tool used to raise privileges didn't track the original id in a sudo compatible way. Because of compatibility with sudo, the code assumes that uid_t is an unsigned integer type (which is not required by the standard) but is used that way in their codebase to generate SUDO_UID. In systems where uid_t is signed, sudo might be also patched to NOT be unsigned and that might be able to trigger an edge case and a bug (as described in the code), but it is considered unlikely to happen and even if it does, the code would just mostly fail safely, so there was no attempt either to detect it or prevent it by the code, which is something that might change in the future, based on expected user feedback. Reported-by: Guy Maurel Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor Helped-by: Randall Becker Helped-by: Phillip Wood Suggested-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo

2022-05-13T01:12:23Z

Originally reported after release of v2.35.2 (and other maint branches) for CVE-2022-24765 and blocking otherwise harmless commands that were done using sudo in a repository that was owned by the user. Add a new test script with very basic support to allow running git commands through sudo, so a reproduction could be implemented and that uses only `git status` as a proxy of the issue reported. Note that because of the way sudo interacts with the system, a much more complete integration with the test framework will require a lot more work and that was therefore intentionally punted for now. The current implementation requires the execution of a special cleanup function which should always be kept as the last "test" or otherwise the standard cleanup functions will fail because they can't remove the root owned directories that are used. This also means that if failures are found while running, the specifics of the failure might not be kept for further debugging and if the test was interrupted, it will be necessary to clean the working directory manually before restarting by running: $ sudo rm -rf trash\ directory.t0034-root-safe-directory/ The test file also uses at least one initial "setup" test that creates a parallel execution directory under the "root" sub directory, which should be used as top level directory for all repositories that are used in this test file. Unlike all other tests the repository provided by the test framework should go unused. Special care should be taken when invoking commands through sudo, since the environment is otherwise independent from what the test framework setup and might have changed the values for HOME, SHELL and dropped several relevant environment variables for your test. Indeed `git status` was used as a proxy because it doesn't even require commits in the repository to work and usually doesn't require much from the environment to run, but a future patch will add calls to `git init` and that will fail to honor the default branch name, unless that setting is NOT provided through an environment variable (which means even a CI run could fail that test if enabled incorrectly). A new SUDO prerequisite is provided that does some sanity checking to make sure the sudo command that will be used allows for passwordless execution as root without restrictions and doesn't mess with git's execution path. This matches what is provided by the macOS agents that are used as part of GitHub actions and probably nowhere else. Most of those characteristics make this test mostly only suitable for CI, but it might be executed locally if special care is taken to provide for all of them in the local configuration and maybe making use of the sudo credential cache by first invoking sudo, entering your password if needed, and then invoking the test with: $ GIT_TEST_ALLOW_SUDO=YES ./t0034-root-safe-directory.sh If it fails to run, then it means your local setup wouldn't work for the test because of the configuration sudo has or other system settings, and things that might help are to comment out sudo's secure_path config, and make sure that the account you are using has no restrictions on the commands it can run through sudo, just like is provided for the user in the CI. For example (assuming a username of marta for you) something probably similar to the following entry in your /etc/sudoers (or equivalent) file: marta ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor Helped-by: Phillip Wood Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Git 2.30.4

2022-04-13T20:31:29Z

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

setup: opt-out of check with safe.directory=*

2022-04-13T19:42:51Z

With the addition of the safe.directory in 8959555ce (setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory, 2022-03-02) released in v2.35.2, we are receiving feedback from a variety of users about the feature. Some users have a very large list of shared repositories and find it cumbersome to add this config for every one of them. In a more difficult case, certain workflows involve running Git commands within containers. The container boundary prevents any global or system config from communicating `safe.directory` values from the host into the container. Further, the container almost always runs as a different user than the owner of the directory in the host. To simplify the reactions necessary for these users, extend the definition of the safe.directory config value to include a possible '*' value. This value implies that all directories are safe, providing a single setting to opt-out of this protection. Note that an empty assignment of safe.directory clears all previous values, and this is already the case with the "if (!value || !*value)" condition. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

setup: fix safe.directory key not being checked

2022-04-13T19:42:51Z

It seems that nothing is ever checking to make sure the safe directories in the configs actually have the key safe.directory, so some unrelated config that has a value with a certain directory would also make it a safe directory. Signed-off-by: Matheus Valadares Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano