Merge tag 'v2.35.2.windows.1'

Git for Windows v2.35.2

Changes since Git for Windows v2.35.1(2) (February 1st 2022)

This version addresses CVE-2022-24765 and CVE-2022-24767.

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.35.2.

Bug Fixes

  * The uninstaller was hardened to avoid a vulnerability when running
    under the SYSTEM account, addressing CVE-2022-24767.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <[email protected]>

Author: vdye

Documentation/config/safe.txt

@@ -26,3 +26,9 @@ directory was listed in the `safe.directory` list. If `safe.directory=*`
 is set in system config and you want to re-enable this protection, then
 initialize your list with an empty value before listing the repositories
 that you deem safe.
++
+Due to the permission model on Windows where ACLs are used instead of
+Unix' simpler permission model, it can be a bit tricky to figure out why
+a directory is considered unsafe. To help with this, Git will provide
+more detailed information when the environment variable
+`GIT_TEST_DEBUG_UNSAFE_DIRECTORIES` is set to `true`.

compat/mingw.c

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #include "../git-compat-util.h"
 #include "win32.h"
 #include <aclapi.h>
+#include <sddl.h>
 #include <conio.h>
 #include <wchar.h>
 #include <winioctl.h>
@@ -3513,6 +3514,7 @@ int is_path_owned_by_current_sid(const char *path)
 	else if (sid && IsValidSid(sid)) {
 		/* Now, verify that the SID matches the current user's */
 		static PSID current_user_sid;
+		BOOL is_member;
 
 		if (!current_user_sid)
 			current_user_sid = get_current_user_sid();
@@ -3521,6 +3523,35 @@ int is_path_owned_by_current_sid(const char *path)
 		    IsValidSid(current_user_sid) &&
 		    EqualSid(sid, current_user_sid))
 			result = 1;
+		else if (IsWellKnownSid(sid, WinBuiltinAdministratorsSid) &&
+			 CheckTokenMembership(NULL, sid, &is_member) &&
+			 is_member)
+			/*
+			 * If owned by the Administrators group, and the
+			 * current user is an administrator, we consider that
+			 * okay, too.
+			 */
+			result = 1;
+		else if (git_env_bool("GIT_TEST_DEBUG_UNSAFE_DIRECTORIES", 0)) {
+			LPSTR str1, str2, to_free1 = NULL, to_free2 = NULL;
+
+			if (ConvertSidToStringSidA(sid, &str1))
+				to_free1 = str1;
+			else
+				str1 = "(inconvertible)";
+
+			if (!current_user_sid)
+				str2 = "(none)";
+			else if (!IsValidSid(current_user_sid))
+				str2 = "(invalid)";
+			else if (ConvertSidToStringSidA(current_user_sid, &str2))
+				to_free2 = str2;
+			else
+				str2 = "(inconvertible)";
+			warning("'%s' is owned by:\n\t'%s'\nbut the current user is:\n\t'%s'", path, str1, str2);
+			LocalFree(to_free1);
+			LocalFree(to_free2);
+		}
 	}
 
 	/*