Hi,

On 11/04/16 16:51, Tim Ruehsen wrote:
> 
> Did you consider Giuseppe's suggestion ?
> "can the file_exists_p check just be moved to hsts_file_access_valid that
> doesn't return an error on ENOENT?  In other words, just have here:
> if (hsts_file_access_valid (filename))"

New patch attached.

> 
> Tim
> 

Regards,

- AJ
>From 7f6db4a128e4f9ecd99a493d50b0fb58c1fc8aa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ander Juaristi <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:55:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Check the HSTS file is not world-writable

 * hsts.c (hsts_file_access_valid): check that the file is a regular
   file, and that it's not world-writable.
   (hsts_store_open): if the HSTS database file does not meet the
   above requirements, disable HSTS at all.
---
 src/hsts.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/hsts.c b/src/hsts.c
index d5e0bee..b29f352 100644
--- a/src/hsts.c
+++ b/src/hsts.c
@@ -334,6 +334,22 @@ hsts_store_dump (hsts_store_t store, FILE *fp)
     }
 }
 
+/*
+ * Test:
+ *  - The file is a regular file (ie. not a symlink), and
+ *  - The file is not world-writable.
+ */
+static bool
+hsts_file_access_valid (const char *filename)
+{
+  struct_stat st;
+
+  if (stat (filename, &st) == -1)
+    return false;
+
+  return !(st.st_mode & S_IWOTH) && S_ISREG (st.st_mode);
+}
+
 /* HSTS API */
 
 /*
@@ -471,7 +487,7 @@ hsts_store_open (const char *filename)
   store->table = hash_table_new (0, hsts_hash_func, hsts_cmp_func);
   store->last_mtime = 0;
 
-  if (file_exists_p (filename))
+  if (hsts_file_access_valid (filename))
     {
       fp = fopen (filename, "r");
 
@@ -486,6 +502,18 @@ hsts_store_open (const char *filename)
       if (fstat (fileno (fp), &st) == 0)
         store->last_mtime = st.st_mtime;
     }
+  else if (file_exists_p (filename))
+    {
+      /*
+       * If we're not reading the HSTS database,
+       * then by all means act as if HSTS was disabled.
+       */
+      hsts_store_close (store);
+      xfree (store);
+
+      logprintf (LOG_NOTQUIET, "Will not apply HSTS. "
+                 "The HSTS database must be a regular and non-world-writable file.\n");
+    }
 
 out:
   if (fp)
-- 
2.1.4

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