Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2002 03:30:02 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ftpd patch that saves me a lot of hassle
Message-ID:  <20020120033002.C13686@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020119122812.E909@gelatinous.com>; from aaron-fbsd@mutex.org on Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:28:12PM -0800
References:  <20020119122812.E909@gelatinous.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
* Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org> [020119 12:29] wrote:
> I got sick of (presumably) warez people probing my anonymous ftp site and
> dropping all kinds of hard-to-delete trash in incoming, so I patched my
> ftpd to only allow directories to start with alphanumerics. There's
> probably a better solution, but this works for me so I figure'd I'd share.
> 
> Combining this with a umask that doesn't allow reading uploaded files keeps
> things reasonably well in hand.

This is cool, would be cooler if it was a regex or something to validate
the names passed in via a command line, also could be used to protect
against evil filenames. :)

> 
> --Aaron
> 
> 
> Index: ftpd.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.62.2.15
> diff -u -r1.62.2.15 ftpd.c
> --- ftpd.c	2001/12/18 18:35:55	1.62.2.15
> +++ ftpd.c	2002/01/19 09:47:42
> @@ -2216,6 +2216,12 @@
>  {
>  
>  	LOGCMD("mkdir", name);
> +
> +	if (!isalnum(*name)) {
> +		reply(521, "Bite me.");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (mkdir(name, 0777) < 0)
>  		perror_reply(550, name);
>  	else
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
Tax deductable donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020120033002.C13686>