From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Subject: Re: scratch/package-security bcde5f8 2/2: Support expiration of metadata by package archives
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:01:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmtz5c58i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201121234315.1991F209DE@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sat, 21 Nov 2020 18:43:14 -0500 (EST)")
> @@ -449,6 +458,7 @@ synchronously."
> (define-error 'bad-size "Package size mismatch" 'package-error)
> (define-error 'bad-signature "Failed to verify signature" 'package-error)
> (define-error 'bad-checksum "Failed to verify checksum" 'package-error)
> +(define-error 'bad-timestamp "Failed to verify timestamp" 'package-error)
Hmm, these errors should all have a `package-` prefix.
> \f
> ;;; `package-desc' object definition
> @@ -1812,6 +1822,100 @@ Once it's empty, run `package--post-download-archives-hook'."
> (message "Package refresh done")
> (run-hooks 'package--post-download-archives-hook)))
>
> +(defun package--parse-header-from-buffer (header name)
> + "Find and return \"archive-contents\" HEADER for archive NAME.
> +This function assumes that the current buffer contains the
> +\"archive-contents\" file.
> +
> +A valid header looks like: \";; HEADER: <TIMESTAMP>\"
> +
> +Where <TIMESTAMP> is a valid ISO-8601 (RFC 3339) date. If there
> +is such a line but <TIMESTAMP> is invalid, show a warning and
> +return nil. If there is no valid header, return nil."
> + (save-excursion
> + (goto-char (point-min))
> + (when (re-search-forward (concat "^;; " header ": *\\(.+?\\) *$") nil t)
> + (condition-case-unless-debug nil
> + (encode-time (iso8601-parse (match-string 1)))
> + (lwarn '(package timestamp)
> + (list (format "Malformed timestamp for archive `%s': `%s'"
> + name (match-string 1))))))))
Hmm... I think you forgot the `error` in this
`condition-case-unless-debug` (i.e. the way you wrote it, it will catch
all `lwarn` errors).
> +(defun package--parse-valid-until-from-buffer (name)
> + "Find and return \"Valid-Until\" header for archive NAME."
> + (package--parse-header-from-buffer "Valid-Until" name))
It would be easier for the ELPA archives is to use a "validity duration"
header, since it could then be constant.
Other that that, LGTM,
[ BTW, to mitigate against replay attacks in the absence of timestamps,
we could compare the last `archive-content` with the new one and make
sure that none of the packages's version got smaller. ]
Stefan
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2020-11-26 2:24 ` scratch/package-security bcde5f8 2/2: Support expiration of metadata by package archives Stefan Kangas
2020-11-26 2:44 ` Stefan Monnier
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