Revision e1d911dd4c7b76a5a8cec0f5c8de15981e34da83 authored by Johannes Schindelin on 12 September 2019, 12:54:05 UTC, committed by Johannes Schindelin on 04 December 2019, 12:20:05 UTC
The backslash character is not a valid part of a file name on Windows. Hence it is dangerous to allow writing files that were unpacked from tree objects, when the stored file name contains a backslash character: it will be misinterpreted as directory separator. This not only causes ambiguity when a tree contains a blob `a\b` and a tree `a` that contains a blob `b`, but it also can be used as part of an attack vector to side-step the careful protections against writing into the `.git/` directory during a clone of a maliciously-crafted repository. Let's prevent that, addressing CVE-2019-1354. Note: we guard against backslash characters in tree objects' file names _only_ on Windows (because on other platforms, even on those where NTFS volumes can be mounted, the backslash character is _not_ a directory separator), and _only_ when `core.protectNTFS = true` (because users might need to generate tree objects for other platforms, of course without touching the worktree, e.g. using `git update-index --cacheinfo`). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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mergesort.h
#ifndef MERGESORT_H
#define MERGESORT_H
/*
* Sort linked list in place.
* - get_next_fn() returns the next element given an element of a linked list.
* - set_next_fn() takes two elements A and B, and makes B the "next" element
* of A on the list.
* - compare_fn() takes two elements A and B, and returns negative, 0, positive
* as the same sign as "subtracting" B from A.
*/
void *llist_mergesort(void *list,
void *(*get_next_fn)(const void *),
void (*set_next_fn)(void *, void *),
int (*compare_fn)(const void *, const void *));
#endif
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