Revamped the script-security warning logging (version 2)

The main task of this patch is to avoid reporting the SCRIPT_SECURITY_WARNING
over and over again, in addition to not show this warning when it should not
be a problem.  This general warning should now only appear once, and only when
--script-security is not set, 0 or 1.  In all other cases this warning should
not appear.

In addition, this warning will come close to the script-hook which most probably
will fail.  It will also give a little bit more concrete hint on which script-hook
which failed.  If --script-security is 2 or 3, only the execve failure itself will
be shown.  This message will on the other hand be shown repeatedly.

This is a new rewritten version which simplifies the implementaion of the new
openvpn_run_script() function.  It was considered to remove it completely, but
due to code clearity and easy of use it was decided to make this function a static
inline function instead.  Anyhow, this function will enforce openvpn_execve_check()
to be called with the S_SCRIPT flag.

Patch ACKed on the developers meeting 2009-04-29.

Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <dazo@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: James Yonan <james@openvpn.net>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/misc.h b/misc.h
index bf51e89..4695d3e 100644
--- a/misc.h
+++ b/misc.h
@@ -136,6 +136,15 @@ bool openvpn_execve_check (const struct argv *a, const struct env_set *es, const
 bool openvpn_execve_allowed (const unsigned int flags);
 int openvpn_system (const char *command, const struct env_set *es, unsigned int flags);
 
+static inline bool
+openvpn_run_script (const struct argv *a, const struct env_set *es, const unsigned int flags, const char *hook)
+{
+  char msg[256];
+
+  openvpn_snprintf(msg, sizeof(msg), "WARNING: Failed running command (%s)", hook);
+  return openvpn_execve_check(a, es, flags | S_SCRIPT, msg);
+};
+
 #ifdef HAVE_STRERROR
 /* a thread-safe version of strerror */
 const char* strerror_ts (int errnum, struct gc_arena *gc);
@@ -303,6 +312,7 @@ void get_user_pass_auto_userid (struct user_pass *up, const char *tag);
 extern const char *iproute_path;
 #endif
 
+/* Script security */
 #define SSEC_NONE      0 /* strictly no calling of external programs */
 #define SSEC_BUILT_IN  1 /* only call built-in programs such as ifconfig, route, netsh, etc.*/
 #define SSEC_SCRIPTS   2 /* allow calling of built-in programs and user-defined scripts */