dispatch: protect against malicious 'hg serve --stdio' invocations (sec)
Some shared-ssh installations assume that 'hg serve --stdio' is a safe
command to run for minimally trusted users. Unfortunately, the messy
implementation of argument parsing here meant that trying to access a
repo named '--debugger' would give the user a pdb prompt, thereby
sidestepping any hoped-for sandboxing. Serving repositories over HTTP(S)
is unaffected.
We're not currently hardening any subcommands other than 'serve'. If
your service exposes other commands to users with arbitrary repository
names, it is imperative that you defend against repository names of
'--debugger' and anything starting with '--config'.
The read-only mode of hg-ssh stopped working because it provided its hook
configuration to "hg serve --stdio" via --config parameter. This is banned for
security reasons now. This patch switches it to directly call ui.setconfig().
If your custom hosting infrastructure relies on passing --config to
"hg serve --stdio", you'll need to find a different way to get that configuration
into Mercurial, either by using ui.setconfig() as hg-ssh does in this patch,
or by placing an hgrc file someplace where Mercurial will read it.
mitrandir@fb.com provided some extra fixes for the dispatch code and
for hg-ssh in places that I overlooked.
$ cat > writepatterns.py <<EOF
> import sys
>
> path = sys.argv[1]
> patterns = sys.argv[2:]
>
> fp = file(path, 'wb')
> for pattern in patterns:
> count = int(pattern[0:-1])
> char = pattern[-1] + '\n'
> fp.write(char*count)
> fp.close()
> EOF
prepare repo
$ hg init a
$ cd a
These initial lines of Xs were not in the original file used to generate
the patch. So all the patch hunks need to be applied to a constant offset
within this file. If the offset isn't tracked then the hunks can be
applied to the wrong lines of this file.
$ python ../writepatterns.py a 34X 10A 1B 10A 1C 10A 1B 10A 1D 10A 1B 10A 1E 10A 1B 10A
$ hg commit -Am adda
adding a
This is a cleaner patch generated via diff
In this case it reproduces the problem when
the output of hg export does not
import patch
$ hg import -v -m 'b' -d '2 0' - <<EOF
> --- a/a 2009-12-08 19:26:17.000000000 -0800
> +++ b/a 2009-12-08 19:26:17.000000000 -0800
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
> A
> A
> B
> -A
> +a
> A
> A
> A
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
> A
> A
> B
> -A
> +a
> A
> A
> A
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
> A
> A
> B
> -A
> +a
> A
> A
> A
> EOF
applying patch from stdin
patching file a
Hunk #1 succeeded at 43 (offset 34 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 87 (offset 34 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 109 (offset 34 lines).
committing files:
a
committing manifest
committing changelog
created 189885cecb41
compare imported changes against reference file
$ python ../writepatterns.py aref 34X 10A 1B 1a 9A 1C 10A 1B 10A 1D 10A 1B 1a 9A 1E 10A 1B 1a 9A
$ diff aref a
$ cd ..