mingw: handle `subst`-ed "DOS drives"

Over a decade ago, in 25fe217b86c (Windows: Treat Windows style path
names., 2008-03-05), Git was taught to handle absolute Windows paths,
i.e. paths that start with a drive letter and a colon.

Unbeknownst to us, while drive letters of physical drives are limited to
letters of the English alphabet, there is a way to assign virtual drive
letters to arbitrary directories, via the `subst` command, which is
_not_ limited to English letters.

It is therefore possible to have absolute Windows paths of the form
`1:\what\the\hex.txt`. Even "better": pretty much arbitrary Unicode
letters can also be used, e.g. `ä:\tschibät.sch`.

While it can be sensibly argued that users who set up such funny drive
letters really seek adverse consequences, the Windows Operating System
is known to be a platform where many users are at the mercy of
administrators who have their very own idea of what constitutes a
reasonable setup.

Therefore, let's just make sure that such funny paths are still
considered absolute paths by Git, on Windows.

In addition to Unicode characters, pretty much any character is a valid
drive letter, as far as `subst` is concerned, even `:` and `"` or even a
space character. While it is probably the opposite of smart to use them,
let's safeguard `is_dos_drive_prefix()` against all of them.

Note: `[::1]:repo` is a valid URL, but not a valid path on Windows.
As `[` is now considered a valid drive letter, we need to be very
careful to avoid misinterpreting such a string as valid local path in
`url_is_local_not_ssh()`. To do that, we use the just-introduced
function `is_valid_path()` (which will label the string as invalid file
name because of the colon characters).

This fixes CVE-2019-1351.

Reported-by: Nicolas Joly <Nicolas.Joly@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t0060-path-utils.sh b/t/t0060-path-utils.sh
index f7e2529bff..40db3e1e1a 100755
--- a/t/t0060-path-utils.sh
+++ b/t/t0060-path-utils.sh
@@ -165,6 +165,15 @@ test_expect_success 'absolute path rejects the empty string' '
 	test_must_fail test-path-utils absolute_path ""
 '
 
+test_expect_success MINGW '<drive-letter>:\\abc is an absolute path' '
+	for letter in : \" C Z 1 ä
+	do
+		path=$letter:\\abc &&
+		absolute="$(test-path-utils absolute_path "$path")" &&
+		test "$path" = "$absolute" || return 1
+	done
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'real path rejects the empty string' '
 	test_must_fail test-path-utils real_path ""
 '