[Pharo-project] [squeak-dev] Security Vunerability in SqueakSource

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Mar 21 11:54:31 UTC 2011


On 21.03.2011, at 12:40, Marcus Denker wrote:

> 
> On Mar 21, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
> 
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>> On 21 Mar 2011, at 11:20, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>>> SqueakSource is simply a WebDAV server. All the versioning logic is local, implemented in Monticello, so allowing overwrites is not really SqueakSource's "fault". Besides, even if SqueakSource disallowed overwriting a version (which it probably should) nothing would prevent somebody else to upload a *new* version that did something bad.
>> 
>> Yes versioning/naming is local and distributed, that is a feature. One cannot rely on the name alone.
>> However, it is most certainly a bug that a server happily overwrites existing versions, a version control system should never do that.
>> 
>> Your other points a valid, of course.
>> 
>> 
> I think that "security" was not meant in the sense of accidentally loading wrong code. More in the sense that one could just
> delete all your code. Even though we have backups of the SqueakSource filesystem, you don't want that, as it would be a
> mess to repair.
> 
> 	Marcus


IIRC SqueakSource keeps the old version as a separate file when "overwriting", so nothing is really lost. It's cumbersome to restore though indeed.

- Bert -





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