[Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

Tue Mar 12 19:56:02 GMT 2013

Hi Ron

Do you know if this is using Firefox or one of the other browsers? I've tested it using several of the models (albeit on Xampp - not sure what setup Julian tested it on) in the 3 mainstream browsers and it's been working fine, except for the erroneous messages which we are still trying to figure out the best way to catch them in Flash...

I'll patch one in an hour or so and if you could try it out then it might give us a clue as to whether its the session problem or something else...

Regards

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health and Life Sciences

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Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:

Hi
sorry been quiet for a week or so (on holiday) but back now and updated the Techdis installations from svn (not sandpit) and Alistair and Simon reported issues with uploading images. I reverted one installation back and that worked again but I've left the latest code in the /xot test install which doesn't work. Basically uploads seem to work ok via media & quota but not via a graphics and sound page for instance. The image appears to upload and an upload successful prompt appears but the image doesn't actually upload. Any ideas?
Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 11 March 2013 16:18
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

There's no more detail: here's a screenshot showing the code and the relevant events to the left. onComplete means 'successfully uploaded', so the answer will lie in the upload.php and whether, if uploading fails, it's reflected back in the Flash stuff.

I've added some alerts for now so you can see what gets tripped, we can take these out later, and I’ve commited the wizard with these in ,

listener.onComplete = function(file:FileReference):Void  {

      Alert.show("Upload successful");

      --etc--

}

listener.onHTTPError = function(file:FileReference):Void  {

      Alert.show("Upload failed: HTTPError");

      --etc--

}

listener.onIOError = function(file:FileReference):Void  {

      Alert.show("Upload failed: IOError");

      --etc--

}

listener.onSecurityError = function(file:FileReference, errorString:String):Void  {

      Alert.show("Upload failed: Security Error");

      --etc--

}

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 11 March 2013 15:42
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

Are you using FileReference class? This code snippet suggests you can extract data from the DataEvent object in the UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA with var strData:String = StringUtil.trim(evt.data);

private function init():void {

                fileRef = new FileReference();

                fileRef.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, fileRef_select);

                fileRef.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, fileRef_complete);

                fileRef.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, fileRef_ioError);

                fileRef.addEventListener(DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA, fileRef_uploadCompleteData);

                urlReq = new URLRequest();

                urlReq.url = "http://localhost:8300/fileref/uploader.cfm";

            }

            private function fileRef_uploadCompleteData(evt:DataEvent):void {

                var strData:String = StringUtil.trim(evt.data);

                var vars:URLVariables = new URLVariables(strData);

                Alert.show(vars.fileName, "fileName");

            }

Regards,

John Smith

Learning Technologist

School of Health & Life Sciences

Glasgow Caledonian University

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John

Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 3:19 PM

To: For Xerte technical developers

Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

Yeah it should because the upload page completes... you could try sticking a number in the exit function for the blacklist and see if you can get the number, exit(5); for example...

At least the session bit seems to work... I've taken out all the whitelist code and mimetype stuff just now but I have another upload file I'm working on which attempts to detect the mimetype using several techniques contained in drupal and wordpress modules - will let you know if it pans out...

Regards,

John Smith

Learning Technologist

School of Health & Life Sciences

Glasgow Caledonian University

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney

Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 2:32 PM

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

If I try and upload php files, onComplete still fires...

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney

Sent: 11 March 2013 14:27

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

Hold on, I'll see if I can get the events to trip,

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John

Sent: 11 March 2013 14:20

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

Yeah, it’s the Flash end... didn't seem to be doing anything no matter the content of the php PRINT statements so I just removed them for brevity... They were all in English anyway...

Regards,

John Smith

Learning Technologist

School of Health & Life Sciences

Glasgow Caledonian University

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John

Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:57 PM

To: For Xerte technical developers

Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

No way to receive whether the upload was successful or not?

Regards,

John Smith

Learning Technologist

School of Health & Life Sciences

Glasgow Caledonian University

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney

Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:48 PM

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

I'm not sure you can do much with that class, it's just a black box.

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John

Sent: 11 March 2013 13:33

To: For Xerte technical developers

Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

Perhaps it should just feedback error codes, and the flash class translates them...

Regards,

John Smith

Learning Technologist

School of Health & Life Sciences

Glasgow Caledonian University

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney

Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 1:21 PM

To: For Xerte technical developers

Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

NO, I forget the details but there is a flash player class that does the upload thing. I'll give it a whirl.

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John

Sent: 11 March 2013 12:45

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: SECURITY PATCH for upload.php

Hi Julian, give that a try... Does the flash editor do anything with the returned/echoed  text? I've taken them out because they didn't seem to be doing anything in the Flash end and they could give hints to a hacker as to why their attempt was quashed...

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