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authoraszlig <aszlig@nix.build>2018-08-03 06:24:57 +0200
committeraszlig <aszlig@nix.build>2018-08-03 06:46:43 +0200
commit43e28a1b756c2f7ee139c999e6169a71f555e9e5 (patch)
tree93d5baec133de00ce914d71f1a5688f0d1eee954 /src/nix
parentaa64e95bc82b3a57f3a645a746aacf4d2479266e (diff)
Fix symlink leak in restricted eval mode
In EvalState::checkSourcePath, the path is checked against the list of allowed paths first and later it's checked again *after* resolving symlinks. The resolving of the symlinks is done via canonPath, which also strips out "../" and "./". However after the canonicalisation the error message pointing out that the path is not allowed prints the symlink target in the error message. Even if we'd suppress the message, symlink targets could still be leaked if the symlink target doesn't exist (in this case the error is thrown in canonPath). So instead, we now do canonPath() without symlink resolving first before even checking against the list of allowed paths and then later do the symlink resolving and checking the allowed paths again. The first call to canonPath() should get rid of all the "../" and "./", so in theory the only way to leak a symlink if the attacker is able to put a symlink in one of the paths allowed by restricted evaluation mode. For the latter I don't think this is part of the threat model, because if the attacker can write to that path, the attack vector is even larger. Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
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