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[platal.git] / bin / check_security_fixes.py

diff --git a/bin/check_security_fixes.py b/bin/check_security_fixes.py
index dcdd1ff..ec73c22 100755 (executable)
--- a/bin/check_security_fixes.py
+++ b/bin/check_security_fixes.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 #***************************************************************************
-#*  Copyright (C) 2003-2009 Polytechnique.org                              *
+#*  Copyright (C) 2003-2010 Polytechnique.org                              *
 #*  http://opensource.polytechnique.org/                                   *
 #*                                                                         *
 #*  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify   *
@@ -23,8 +23,12 @@
 applied. It uses the local SECURITY file to determine the list of mandatory
 patches.
 
+Important notice: do not execute this script directly from an automatic checkout
+of plat/al. It would be extremely unwise to execute it with root privileges from
+a place where everybody can change it!
+
 Usage (-w updates the local .htaccess to disable guilty working copies):
-  check_security_fixes.py [-w] -b REFERENCE_PLATAL PLATAL_TO_CHECK ...
+  check_security_fixes.py [-w] -b REFERENCE_PLATAL PLATAL_TO_CHECK...
 """
 
 import optparse
@@ -76,7 +80,7 @@ class WorkingCopy(object):
     ref_file = os.path.join(self.reference_path, security_file)
     wc_file = os.path.join(self.checkout_path, security_file)
 
-    diff = os.popen('diff -NBwu0 %s %s' % (ref_file, wc_file))
+    diff = os.popen('diff -NBw -U 0 %s %s' % (ref_file, wc_file))
     for line in diff.readlines():
       if self.SECURITY_FIX_RE.match(line):
         yield line[1:-1]
@@ -133,6 +137,19 @@ class WorkingCopy(object):
         print "Disabling working copy in %s." % self.checkout_path
         self.Write403Htaccess(self.GetErrorMessage(missing_fixes))
 
+def SelfCheckIsLatestVersion(base_path):
+  """Checks that this script is the latest available by comparing itself to
+  the reference script in |base_path|. It is important to do that check as
+  most deployment will want to execute this script with root privileges,
+  which implies that this script is deployed in a safe directory, and not
+  just executed from an automatically updated checkout of plat/al (how
+  unsafe would that be...)."""
+
+  base_script = os.path.join(base_path, 'bin/check_security_fixes.py')
+  local_script = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
+
+  if os.system('diff -q %s %s' % (base_script, local_script)) != 0:
+    sys.stderr.write('Please upgrade this script to the latest version.\n')
 
 def main():
   parser = optparse.OptionParser()
@@ -149,9 +166,12 @@ def main():
     print "The base plat/al (%s) is too old to be used." % options.base_path
     sys.exit(1)
 
+  SelfCheckIsLatestVersion(options.base_path)
   for platal in args:
     wc = WorkingCopy(options.base_path, platal)
     wc.CheckAndDisableWorkingCopy(options.write_htaccess)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()
+
+# vim:set et sw=2 sts=2 sws=2 enc=utf-8: