git-annex/Remote/Helper
Joey Hess df11e54788
avoid the dashed ssh hostname class of security holes
Security fix: Disallow hostname starting with a dash, which would get
passed to ssh and be treated an option. This could be used by an attacker
who provides a crafted ssh url (for eg a git remote) to execute arbitrary
code via ssh -oProxyCommand.

No CVE has yet been assigned for this hole.
The same class of security hole recently affected git itself,
CVE-2017-1000117.

Method: Identified all places where ssh is run, by git grep '"ssh"'
Converted them all to use a SshHost, if they did not already, for
specifying the hostname.

SshHost was made a data type with a smart constructor, which rejects
hostnames starting with '-'.

Note that git-annex already contains extensive use of Utility.SafeCommand,
which fixes a similar class of problem where a filename starting with a
dash gets passed to a program which treats it as an option.

This commit was sponsored by Jochen Bartl on Patreon.
2017-08-17 22:11:31 -04:00
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Chunked remove 163 lines of code without changing anything except imports 2016-01-20 16:36:33 -04:00
AWS.hs S3: Support the special case endpoint needed for the cn-north-1 region. 2016-11-07 11:49:34 -04:00
Chunked.hs fix giveup shadowing 2016-11-16 00:28:10 -04:00
Encryptable.hs adeiu, MissingH 2017-05-16 01:03:52 -04:00
Git.hs remove 163 lines of code without changing anything except imports 2016-01-20 16:36:33 -04:00
Hooks.hs remove 163 lines of code without changing anything except imports 2016-01-20 16:36:33 -04:00
Http.hs Avoid backtraces on expected failures when built with ghc 8; only use backtraces for unexpected errors. 2016-11-15 21:29:54 -04:00
Messages.hs Avoid backtraces on expected failures when built with ghc 8; only use backtraces for unexpected errors. 2016-11-15 21:29:54 -04:00
ReadOnly.hs remove 163 lines of code without changing anything except imports 2016-01-20 16:36:33 -04:00
Special.hs adeiu, MissingH 2017-05-16 01:03:52 -04:00
Ssh.hs avoid the dashed ssh hostname class of security holes 2017-08-17 22:11:31 -04:00