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boundary="------------pdxwuAojrYK0VHUP0ivOt4vL" --------------pdxwuAojrYK0VHUP0ivOt4vL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/2/25 07:43, Alyssa Ross wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 01:18:02PM +0100, Alyssa Ross wrote: >> Demi Marie Obenour writes: >> >>> On 11/1/25 08:17, Alyssa Ross wrote: >>>> Demi Marie Obenour writes: >>>> >>>>> On 10/29/25 08:01, Alyssa Ross wrote: >>>>>> Demi Marie Obenour writes: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Spectrum OS's host has no network access. Updates must be downlo= aded by >>>>>>> VMs. The downloads are placed into a bind-mounted directory. Th= e VM >>>>>>> can write whatever it wants into that directory. This includes s= ymlinks >>>>>>> that subsequent code might open, which would create a path traver= sal >>>>>>> vulnerability. It also includes paths with names containing cont= aining >>>>>>> terminal escape sequences, newlines, or other nastiness. Further= more, >>>>>>> the directory should not have any subdirectories either. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Add a simple C program that checks for such ugliness and indicate= s >>>>>>> (via its exit code) if the VM misbehaved. It also ensures that b= oth >>>>>>> SHA256SUMS and SHA256SUMS.gpg are present. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour >>>>>>> --- >>>>>>> host/rootfs/Makefile | 6 +- >>>>>>> lib/kcmdline-utils.mk | 6 ++ >>>>>>> tools/default.nix | 1 + >>>>>>> tools/meson.build | 1 + >>>>>>> tools/updates-dir-check/meson.build | 4 ++ >>>>>>> tools/updates-dir-check/updates-dir-check.c | 94 +++++++++++++++= ++++++++++++++ >>>>>>> 6 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>>>>> >>>>>> I still don't really understand why this needs to be a C program i= nstead >>>>>> of find -H /path/to/dir -not -type f. None of the other checks se= em >>>>>> very necessary? >>>>> >>>>> I trust this code more than I trust (especially) the Busybox >>>>> implementation of find. >>>> >>>> This doesn't really make sense to me. All of this is quite trivial = find >>>> behaviour =E2=80=94 not the sort of thing that's unlikely to have be= en widely >>>> tested. No objection to GNU find though if it helps. >>> >>> I see: find with a -exec false to return an error if anything matchin= g >>> is found? >>> >>> I'm way more familiar with C than with find, which is why I missed th= is. >> >> Hmm, thinking about it some more I suppose there's a problem with find= : >> there's no way to get it to exit as soon as it finds a matching file, >> with a failing error code, so it could end up running way too long. >> >> So the C program is fine, I guess. >=20 > Actually, we can do it. We just need to make find not responsible for > exiting. >=20 > foreground { > pipeline { find -H /path/to/dir -mindepth 1 -not -type f -prune } > grep -q . > } > importas -iu ? ? > if { test $? -eq 1 } > # We have only regular files. >=20 > When find prints a line, grep will exit, and find will receive SIGPIPE > and exit. This version also has a bug: if find exits with an error without printing anything, the exit status will be ignored. Something like this (not tested) might work: pipeline { find -H /path/to/dir -mindepth 1 -not -type f -prune } importas -iu ! ! foreground { grep -q . } if { importas -iu ? ? test $? -eq 1 } wait $! importas -iu ? ? if { test $? -eq 0 } However, it's all way way way way too subtle for me. It's short, but it's also extremely error-prone. 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