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gpg: Make the use of "--verify FILE" for detached sigs harder.

* g10/openfile.c (open_sigfile): Factor some code out to ...
(get_matching_datafile): new function.
* g10/plaintext.c (hash_datafiles): Do not try to find matching file
in batch mode.
* g10/mainproc.c (check_sig_and_print): Print a warning if a possibly
matching data file is not used by a standard signatures.
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Allowing to use the abbreviated form for detached signatures is a long
standing bug which has only been noticed by the public with the
release of 2.1.0.  :-(

What we do is to remove the ability to check detached signature in
--batch using the one file abbreviated mode.  This should exhibit
problems in scripts which use this insecure practice.  We also print a
warning if a matching data file exists but was not considered because
the detached signature was actually a standard signature:

  gpgv: Good signature from "Werner Koch (dist sig)"
  gpgv: WARNING: not a detached signature; \
  file 'gnupg-2.1.0.tar.bz2' was NOT verified!

We can only print a warning because it is possible that a standard
signature is indeed to be verified but by coincidence a file with a
matching name is stored alongside the standard signature.

Reported-by: Simon Nicolussi (to gnupg-users on Nov 7)
Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>

(backported from commit 69384568f6)

Updated doc/gpg.texi.
This commit is contained in:
Werner Koch 2014-11-14 09:36:19 +01:00
parent 42d2474a02
commit fbb50867f8
5 changed files with 129 additions and 47 deletions

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@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ int overwrite_filep( const char *fname );
char *make_outfile_name( const char *iname );
char *ask_outfile_name( const char *name, size_t namelen );
int open_outfile( const char *iname, int mode, IOBUF *a );
char *get_matching_datafile (const char *sigfilename);
IOBUF open_sigfile( const char *iname, progress_filter_context_t *pfx );
void try_make_homedir( const char *fname );