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| author | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/ <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/@web> | 2008-07-24 21:46:23 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2008-07-24 21:46:23 -0400 |
| commit | 7a070c64fab372cb829261a989eb28fdd30d306e (patch) | |
| tree | 4bde30ed192ff8cba1e00bb1bb7326f4c72c27a0 | |
| parent | 058e7e451c3291b201d95f95101dabb1b4d2a5f0 (diff) | |
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Add notes about possible security issues with rename - these look to be already covered in the source, but I wanted to make sure they're listed in the docs too.
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diff --git a/doc/todo/Moving_Pages.mdwn b/doc/todo/Moving_Pages.mdwn index 61f2663e0..cf1ce89c6 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Moving_Pages.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Moving_Pages.mdwn @@ -205,3 +205,9 @@ Cases to consider: Update: Meh. It's certianly not ideal; if Bob tries to save the page he uploaded the attachment to, he'll get a message about it having been deleted/renamed, and he can try to figure out what to do... :-/ +* I don't know if this is a conflict, but it is an important case to consider; + you need to make sure that there are no security holes. You dont want + someone to be able to rename something to <code>/etc/passwd</code>. + I think it would be enough that you cannot rename to a location outside + of srcdir, you cannot rename to a location that you wouldn't be able + to edit because it is locked, and you cannot rename to an existing page. |