[Owncloud] fixed redirect to desired page after login

Frank Karlitschek frank at owncloud.org
Fri May 18 13:36:00 UTC 2012


Attackers can do evil stuff if you don't filer header entries.
This code was introduced as part of a security fix a few weeks ago.



On 18.05.2012, at 15:20, Michiel de Jong <michiel at unhosted.org> wrote:

> how? it's a header() call.
> 
> ah i just found MTGap on irc. thanks!
> 
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 18.05.2012, at 15:16, Michiel de Jong <michiel at unhosted.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> Since the new routing, if the user is made to log in, we were always
>>> sending her to the 'files' app, not to the page where she actually
>>> wanted to go. There was also htmlentities() in the redirect header
>>> which made no sense IMO.
>>> 
>>> As this is quite important code, i was waiting for someone in
>>> owncloud-dev to look at it together, but in the end i just committed
>>> this:
>>> 
>>> http://gitorious.org/owncloud/owncloud/commit/ea33b4aaa104252ff344e93a434e6c2eedcf438b/diffs/9b5e8a2c634e07d9c6e1693158e224eda7e5f673
>>> 
>> 
>> This introduces a XSS bug.
>> Please revert
>> 
>> 
>>> So maybe Georg or someone else should check if this is what was
>>> intended. At least it was broken before, and this commit fixes it.
>>> Have a nice release! tomorrow, right?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> Michiel
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