Work around Tcl's default `PATH` lookup

As per https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/exec.html#M23, Tcl's `exec`
function goes out of its way to imitate the highly dangerous path lookup
of `cmd.exe`, but _of course_ only on Windows:

	If a directory name was not specified as part of the application
	name, the following directories are automatically searched in
	order when attempting to locate the application:

	    The directory from which the Tcl executable was loaded.

	    The current directory.

	    The Windows 32-bit system directory.

	    The Windows home directory.

	    The directories listed in the path.

The dangerous part is the second item, of course: `exec` _prefers_
executables in the current directory to those that are actually in the
`PATH`.

It is almost as if people wanted to Windows users vulnerable,
specifically.

To avoid that, Git GUI already has the `_which` function that does not
imitate that dangerous practice when looking up executables in the
search path.

However, Git GUI currently fails to use that function e.g. when trying to
execute `aspell` for spell checking.

That is not only dangerous but combined with Tcl's unfortunate default
behavior and with the fact that Git GUI tries to spell-check a
repository just after cloning, leads to a critical Remote Code Execution
vulnerability.

Let's override both `exec` and `open` to always use `_which` instead of
letting Tcl perform the path lookup, to prevent this attack vector.

This addresses CVE-2022-41953.

For more details, see
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/security/advisories/GHSA-v4px-mx59-w99c

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>
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Johannes Schindelin 2022-11-23 09:31:06 +01:00 committed by Pratyush Yadav
parent fd477a1d3b
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@ -121,6 +121,62 @@ proc _which {what args} {
return {}
}

proc sanitize_command_line {command_line from_index} {
set i $from_index
while {$i < [llength $command_line]} {
set cmd [lindex $command_line $i]
if {[file pathtype $cmd] ne "absolute"} {
set fullpath [_which $cmd]
if {$fullpath eq ""} {
throw {NOT-FOUND} "$cmd not found in PATH"
}
lset command_line $i $fullpath
}

# handle piped commands, e.g. `exec A | B`
for {incr i} {$i < [llength $command_line]} {incr i} {
if {[lindex $command_line $i] eq "|"} {
incr i
break
}
}
}
return $command_line
}

# Override `exec` to avoid unsafe PATH lookup

rename exec real_exec

proc exec {args} {
# skip options
for {set i 0} {$i < [llength $args]} {incr i} {
set arg [lindex $args $i]
if {$arg eq "--"} {
incr i
break
}
if {[string range $arg 0 0] ne "-"} {
break
}
}
set args [sanitize_command_line $args $i]
uplevel 1 real_exec $args
}

# Override `open` to avoid unsafe PATH lookup

rename open real_open

proc open {args} {
set arg0 [lindex $args 0]
if {[string range $arg0 0 0] eq "|"} {
set command_line [string trim [string range $arg0 1 end]]
lset args 0 "| [sanitize_command_line $command_line 0]"
}
uplevel 1 real_open $args
}

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