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Message-ID: <20070105143454.GB3386@yuggoth.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:34:56 +0000
From: The Fungi <fungi@...goth.org>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Perforce client: security hole by design

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:03:34PM +0100, Ben Bucksch wrote:
[...]
> = Proposed fix =
> 
> The problem at hand could be easily fixed by letting the client check 
> out only in the current directory (or one specified by the user on the 
> commandline or GUI, preferences stored locally), no matter what the 
> server says. It may put files anywhere underneath that directory, but 
> never higher or otherwise outside. It must never adhere to absolute 
> paths from the server. This does require some changes to how client 
> specs work, though.
[...]

Having not used the product, it's hard to say, but it sounds like
chrooting the client differently for each project on which you're
using it would be a suitable hack to provide a workaround, if a
slightly inefficient one. Of course, I agree this is no substitute
for fixing the application design (and likewise the behavior of the
developers responsible).
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