http://bugs.debian.org/807341
* Fix insecure temporary permissions when git-annex repair is used in
in a corrupted git repository.
Other calls to withTmpDir didn't leak any potentially private data,
but repair clones the git repository to a temp directory which is made
using the user's umask. Thus, it might expose a git repo that is
otherwise locked down.
* Fix potential denial of service attack when creating temp dirs.
Since withTmpDir used easily predictable temporary directory names,
an attacker could create foo.0, foo.1, etc and as long as it managed to
keep ahead of it, could prevent it from ever returning.
I'd rate this as a low utility DOS attack. Most attackers in a position
to do this could just fill up the disk /tmp is on to prevent anything
from writing temp files. And few parts of git-annex use withTmpDir
anyway, so DOS potential is quite low.
Examined all callers of withTmpDir and satisfied myself that
switching to mkdtmp and so getting a mode 700 temp dir wouldn't break any
of them.
Note that withTmpDirIn continues to not force temp dir to 700.
But it's only used for temp directories inside .git/annex/wherever/
so that is not a problem.
Also re-audited all other uses of temp files and dirs in git-annex.
git-annex allows managing files with git, without checking the file
contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when
dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due
to limitations in memory, checksumming time, or disk space.
For documentation, see doc/ or <https://git-annex.branchable.com/>
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