Re: [PATCH 1/7] kvmtool: 9p: fix path traversal vulnerabilities

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 06:02:38PM +0200, G. Campana wrote:
> ---
>  virtio/9p.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/virtio/9p.c b/virtio/9p.c
> index 49e7c5c..c3edc20 100644
> --- a/virtio/9p.c
> +++ b/virtio/9p.c
> @@ -222,6 +222,21 @@ static bool is_dir(struct p9_fid *fid)
>  	return S_ISDIR(st.st_mode);
>  }
>  
> +/* path is always absolute */
> +static bool path_is_illegal(const char *path)
> +{
> +	size_t len;
> +
> +	if (strstr(path, "/../") != NULL)
> +		return true;
> +
> +	len = strlen(path);
> +	if (len >= 3 && strcmp(path + len - 3, "/..") == 0)
> +		return true;

Why not just look for ".." and ignore the slashes altogether? Then you
wouldn't need to treat the end of the string specially, either.

Will
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