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[ikiwiki.git] / doc / security.mdwn

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Let's do an ikiwiki security analysis..
+Let's do an ikiwiki security analysis.
 
 If you are using ikiwiki to render pages that only you can edit, do not
 generate any wrappers, and do not use the cgi, then there are no more
@@ -18,10 +18,18 @@ Anyone with direct commit access can forge "web commit from foo" and
 make it appear on [[RecentChanges]] like foo committed. One way to avoid
 this would be to limit web commits to those done by a certian user.
 
+## XML::Parser
+
+XML::Parser is used by the aggregation plugin, and has some security holes
+that are still open in Debian unstable as of this writing. #378411 does not
+seem to affect our use, since the data is not encoded as utf-8 at that
+point. #378412 could affect us, although it doesn't seem very exploitable.
+It has a simple fix, which should be NMUed or something..
+
 ## other stuff to look at
 
 I need to audit the git backend a bit, and have been meaning to
-see if any CRLF injection type things can be done.
+see if any CRLF injection type things can be done in the CGI code.
 
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@@ -41,7 +49,7 @@ Of course nobody else seems to worry about this in other wikis, so should we?
 
 Currently only people with direct svn commit access can upload such files
 (and if you wanted to you could block that with a svn pre-commit hook).
-Wsers with only web commit access are limited to editing pages as ikiwiki
+Users with only web commit access are limited to editing pages as ikiwiki
 doesn't support file uploads from browsers (yet), so they can't exploit
 this.
 
@@ -83,6 +91,10 @@ _(AKA, the assumptions that will be the root of most security holes...)_
 Someone could add bad content to the wiki and hope to exploit ikiwiki.
 Note that ikiwiki runs with perl taint checks on, so this is unlikely.
 
+One fun thing in ikiwiki is its handling of a PageSpec, which involves
+translating it into perl and running the perl. Of course, this is done
+*very* carefully to guard against injecting arbitrary perl code.
+
 ## publishing cgi scripts
 
 ikiwiki does not allow cgi scripts to be published as part of the wiki. Or