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alias: aliascmd: refuse uninvokable aliases

Message ID 20221217190705.atfwacsgggtafzl2@tarta.nabijaczleweli.xyz (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: Herbert Xu
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Series alias: aliascmd: refuse uninvokable aliases | expand

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наб Dec. 17, 2022, 7:07 p.m. UTC
See standards quote within, but the fun bit is:
  alias "a'b=c" "ls&id=cd"; alias
outputs
  ls&id='cd'
  a'b='c'
neither of which is What You Want, and also you can't invoke them
because you need to escape the quote/&/whatever, which disables
alias processing. Forbid the minimum broken set.

For reference's sake, here's a test driver:
  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>
  #include <string.h>
  #include <sys/wait.h>
  #include <unistd.h>
  int main(int _, char ** argv) {
  	putenv("LC_ALL=C");
  	char val[] = "alias 'aQb=echo a' && alias";
  	unsigned char * vp = strchr(val, 'Q');
  	for(unsigned i = 0; i <= 0xFF; ++i) {
  		*vp = i;
  		if(!vfork()) {
  			execl(argv[1], "sh", "-c", val, (char *)NULL);
  			_exit(-1);
  		}
  		int r;
  		wait(&r);
  		fprintf(stderr, "%02x: %d\n", i, WEXITSTATUS(r));
  	}
  }

zsh  refuses nothing
dash refuses 09 0a 20 22 24 26 27 28 29 3b 3c 3e 5c 60 7c
bash refuses dash + 2f
mksh refuses bash + 23 + 2a + 3f + 5e + <20 + >7c
ksh  refuses bash + 2a + 3f + 5b + 7b + 7d

Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/758542
---
 src/alias.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Herbert Xu Dec. 18, 2022, 3:04 a.m. UTC | #1
наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> wrote:
> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 109 lines --]
> 
> See standards quote within, but the fun bit is:
>  alias "a'b=c" "ls&id=cd"; alias
> outputs
>  ls&id='cd'
>  a'b='c'
> neither of which is What You Want, and also you can't invoke them
> because you need to escape the quote/&/whatever, which disables
> alias processing. Forbid the minimum broken set.
> 
> For reference's sake, here's a test driver:
>  #include <stdio.h>
>  #include <stdlib.h>
>  #include <string.h>
>  #include <sys/wait.h>
>  #include <unistd.h>
>  int main(int _, char ** argv) {
>        putenv("LC_ALL=C");
>        char val[] = "alias 'aQb=echo a' && alias";
>        unsigned char * vp = strchr(val, 'Q');
>        for(unsigned i = 0; i <= 0xFF; ++i) {
>                *vp = i;
>                if(!vfork()) {
>                        execl(argv[1], "sh", "-c", val, (char *)NULL);
>                        _exit(-1);
>                }
>                int r;
>                wait(&r);
>                fprintf(stderr, "%02x: %d\n", i, WEXITSTATUS(r));
>        }
>  }
> 
> zsh  refuses nothing
> dash refuses 09 0a 20 22 24 26 27 28 29 3b 3c 3e 5c 60 7c
> bash refuses dash + 2f
> mksh refuses bash + 23 + 2a + 3f + 5e + <20 + >7c
> ksh  refuses bash + 2a + 3f + 5b + 7b + 7d
> 
> Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/758542

The main objective of dash is to try to be minimal, so I'm not
going to take this patch.

Thanks,
наб Dec. 18, 2022, 3:34 a.m. UTC | #2
Hi!

On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 11:04:19AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> The main objective of dash is to try to be minimal, so I'm not
> going to take this patch.

In that case, how's about the scissor-patch below that fixes the main
questionable part of this (these dubious aliases executed as code when
re-evaled, which POSIX says should be fine)? It's roughly what zsh does.
-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] alias: printalias: quote the name, too

This ensures even something like
  alias 'a|b|c=d'
is output by alias as
  'a|b|c'='d'
instead of
  a|b|c='d'
which is both "suitable for reinput to the shell" per POSIX
and doesn't execute the aliases as code.
---
 src/alias.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/alias.c b/src/alias.c
index daeacbb..1375cdd 100644
--- a/src/alias.c
+++ b/src/alias.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ freealias(struct alias *ap) {
 
 void
 printalias(const struct alias *ap) {
-	out1fmt("%s=%s\n", ap->name, single_quote(ap->val));
+	out1fmt("%s=%s\n", single_quote(ap->name), single_quote(ap->val));
 }
 
 STATIC struct alias **
Herbert Xu Dec. 19, 2022, 8:09 a.m. UTC | #3
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 04:34:56AM +0100, наб wrote:
>
> In that case, how's about the scissor-patch below that fixes the main
> questionable part of this (these dubious aliases executed as code when
> re-evaled, which POSIX says should be fine)? It's roughly what zsh does.

Yes this looks simple enough.  I'll look into it.

Thanks,
Herbert Xu Jan. 5, 2023, 9:06 a.m. UTC | #4
наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> wrote:
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] alias: printalias: quote the name, too

Please resend this with a new Subject line as otherwise it doesn't
get tracked properly by patchwork.

Thanks,
Harald van Dijk Jan. 8, 2023, 12:30 p.m. UTC | #5
On 17/12/2022 19:07, наб wrote:
> See standards quote within, but the fun bit is:
>    alias "a'b=c" "ls&id=cd"; alias
> outputs
>    ls&id='cd'
>    a'b='c'
> neither of which is What You Want, and also you can't invoke them
> because you need to escape the quote/&/whatever, which disables
> alias processing. Forbid the minimum broken set.

I didn't realise this at the time, and since it's not getting merged 
it's not very important, but for completeness: this patch also rejects 
some aliases that are invokable:

   alias $=echo
   $ hello world

This is because whether $ is special depends on the character that follows.

Cheers,
Harald van Dijk
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Patch

diff --git a/src/alias.c b/src/alias.c
index daeacbb..81de975 100644
--- a/src/alias.c
+++ b/src/alias.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ 
  * SUCH DAMAGE.
  */
 
+#include <stdbool.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include "shell.h"
 #include "input.h"
@@ -46,10 +47,38 @@ 
 
 struct alias *atab[ATABSIZE];
 
+STATIC bool validalias(const char *);
 STATIC void setalias(const char *, const char *);
 STATIC struct alias *freealias(struct alias *);
 STATIC struct alias **__lookupalias(const char *);
 
+/*
+ * POSIX Issue 7, XCU, 2.3.1 Alias Substitution:
+ *   the command name word of a simple command shall be examined
+ *   to determine whether it is an unquoted, valid alias name
+ * POSIX Issue 7, XCU, 2.2 Quoting:
+ *   The various quoting mechanisms are the escape character,
+ *   single-quotes, and double-quotes.
+ *
+ * Trivially, it's impossible to invoke an alias with whitespace inside
+ * (which has to be quoted, and therefore won't be an alias),
+ * with a backslash, or with quotes (likewise).
+ * The same applies to $, &, ), (, ;, >, <, `, and |.
+ *
+ * Additionally, rejecting quotes and other garbage means that we prevent
+ *   alias "a'b=c" "ls&id=cd"
+ * being output as
+ *   a'b='c'
+ *   ls&id='cd'
+ * which explodes and/or executes code when it's evaled back.
+ */
+STATIC
+bool
+validalias(const char *name)
+{
+	return !strpbrk(name, "\t\n \\\"'$&)(;><`|");
+}
+
 STATIC
 void
 setalias(const char *name, const char *val)
@@ -151,7 +180,11 @@  aliascmd(int argc, char **argv)
 				printalias(ap);
 		} else {
 			*v++ = '\0';
-			setalias(n, v);
+			if (!validalias(n)) {
+				outfmt(out2, "%s: %s: invalid name\n", "alias", n);
+				ret = 1;
+			} else
+				setalias(n, v);
 		}
 	}