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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:38:58 +0200
From: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@...il.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, dave b <db.pub.mail@...il.com>,
Jamie Strandboge <jamie@...onical.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: [CVE-2011-2186] XSS security issue in gitweb for 'blob_plain' view with HTML files
Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Tue, 14 June 2011, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
> > > [...] it is enough to enable XSS prevention by adding
> > >
> > > our $prevent_xss = 1;
> > >
> > > in gitweb configuration file.
> >
> > What about making that the default?
>
> I'll come up with a patch... though I am not sure if it shouldn't be
> done by distributions, which usually ship their own system-wide
> gitweb config file.
We don't have a system wide config at least. It's just the defaults
in the script.
> Note that with $prevent_xss enabled gitweb is a bit poorer in features:
> no support for $GIT_DIR/README.html, no using gitweb as deploy platform.
> XSS threat level for gitweb isn't high, I think - there is nothing to
> steal.
You never know. Better safe than sorry :-)
> > For convenience it may make sense to s!text/.*!text/plain! and allow
> > to display that inline.
>
> Already done in
>
> [PATCH] gitweb: Make $prevent_xss protection for 'blob_plain' more usable
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/175604
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/175057/focus=175604
>
> It is in git repository as
>
> fb76adb (gitweb: Make $prevent_xss protection for 'blob_plain' more usable, 2011-06-10)
>
> currently in 'pu' (proposed updates) patch.
Ah, nice :-)
cu
Ludwig
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