gettext, using [po4a](http://po4a.alioth.debian.org/).
It depends on the Perl `Locale::Po4a::Po` library (`apt-get install po4a`).
+As detailed bellow in the security section, `po4a` is subject to
+denial-of-service attacks before version 0.35.
[[!toc levels=2]]
translate `bla/page.mdwn` into French; if `usedirs` is enabled, it is
rendered as `bla/page/index.fr.html`, else as `bla/page.fr.html`
+(In)Compatibility
+=================
+
+This plugin does not support the `indexpages` mode. If you don't know
+what it is, you probably don't care.
+
Configuration
=============
`destpage`'s version written in the current page's language, if
available, *i.e.*:
-- `foo/destpage/index.LL.html` if `usedirs` is enabled
-- `foo/destpage.LL.html` if `usedirs` is disabled
+* `foo/destpage/index.LL.html` if `usedirs` is enabled
+* `foo/destpage.LL.html` if `usedirs` is disabled
### Link to negotiated language
(In)compatibility notes:
-- if `usedirs` is disabled, it does not make sense to set `po_link_to`
+* if `usedirs` is disabled, it does not make sense to set `po_link_to`
to `negotiated`; this option combination is neither implemented
nor allowed.
-- if the web server does not support Content Negotiation, setting
+* if the web server does not support Content Negotiation, setting
`po_link_to` to `negotiated` will produce a unusable website.
The following variables are available inside the loop (for every page in):
-- `URL` - url to the page
-- `CODE` - two-letters language code
-- `LANGUAGE` - language name (as defined in `po_slave_languages`)
-- `MASTER` - is true (1) if, and only if the page is a "master" page
-- `PERCENT` - for "slave" pages, is set to the translation completeness, in percents
+* `URL` - url to the page
+* `CODE` - two-letters language code
+* `LANGUAGE` - language name (as defined in `po_slave_languages`)
+* `MASTER` - is true (1) if, and only if the page is a "master" page
+* `PERCENT` - for "slave" pages, is set to the translation completeness, in percents
### Display the current translation status
could be used to support them, but they would need a security audit
* other markup languages have not been tested.
+Security
+========
-TODO
-====
-
-Security checks
----------------
-
-### Security history
-
-The only past security issues I could find in GNU gettext and po4a
-are:
-
-- [CVE-2004-0966](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0966),
- *i.e.* [Debian bug #278283](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278283):
- the autopoint and gettextize scripts in the GNU gettext package
- 1.14 and later versions, as used in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5
- through 2.1 and other operating systems, allows local users to
- overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
-- [CVE-2007-4462](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4462):
- `lib/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm` in po4a before 0.32 allows local users to
- overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the
- gettextization.failed.po temporary file.
-
-**FIXME**: check whether this plugin would have been a possible attack
-vector to exploit these vulnerabilities.
-
-Depending on my mood, the lack of found security issues can either
-indicate that there are none, or reveal that no-one ever bothered to
-find (and publish) them.
-
-### PO file features
-
-Can any sort of directives be put in po files that will cause mischief
-(ie, include other files, run commands, crash gettext, whatever)?
-
-> No [documented](http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#PO-Files)
-> directive is supposed to do so. [[--intrigeri]]
-
-### Running po4a on untrusted content
-
-Are there any security issues on running po4a on untrusted content?
-
-To say the least, this issue is not well covered, at least publicly:
-
-- the documentation does not talk about it;
-- grep'ing the source code for `security` or `trust` gives no answer.
-
-On the other hand, a po4a developer answered my questions in
-a convincing manner, stating that processing untrusted content was not
-an initial goal, and analysing in detail the possible issues.
-
-#### Already checked
-
-- the core (`Po.pm`, `Transtractor.pm`) should be safe
-- po4a source code was fully checked for other potential symlink
- attacks, after discovery of one such issue
-- the only external program run by the core is `diff`, in `Po.pm` (in
- parts of its code we don't use)
-- `Locale::gettext`: only used to display translated error messages
-- Nicolas François "hopes" `DynaLoader` is safe, and has "no reason to
- think that `Encode` is not safe"
-- Nicolas François has "no reason to think that `Encode::Guess` is not
- safe". The po plugin nevertheless avoids using it by defining the
- input charset (`file_in_charset`) before asking `Transtractor` to
- read any file. NB: this hack depends on po4a internals to stay
- the same.
-
-#### To be checked
-
-##### Locale::Po4a modules
-
-The modules we want to use have to be checked, as not all are safe
-(e.g. the LaTeX module's behaviour is changed by commands included in
-the content); they may use regexps generated from the content.
-
-`Chooser.pm` only loads the plugin we tell it too: currently, this
-means the `Text` module only.
-
-`Text` module (I checked the CVS version):
-
-- it does not run any external program
-- only `do_paragraph()` builds regexp's that expand untrusted
- variables; they seem safe to me, but someone more expert than me
- will need to check. Joey?
-
- > Freaky code, but seems ok due to use of `quotementa`.
-
-##### Text::WrapI18N
-
-`Text::WrapI18N` can cause DoS (see the
-[Debian bug #470250](http://bugs.debian.org/470250)), but it is
-optional and we do not need the features it provides.
-
-It is loaded if available by `Locale::Po4a::Common`; looking at the
-code, I'm not sure we can prevent this at all, but maybe some symbol
-table manipulation tricks could work; overriding
-`Locale::Po4a::Common::wrapi18n` may be easier. I'm no expert at all
-in this field. Joey? [[--intrigeri]]
-
-> Update: Nicolas François suggests we add an option to po4a to
-> disable it. It would do the trick, but only for people running
-> a brand new po4a (probably too late for Lenny). Anyway, this option
-> would have to take effect in a `BEGIN` / `eval` that I'm not
-> familiar with. I can learn and do it, in case no Perl wizard
-> volunteers to provide the po4a patch. [[--intrigeri]]
-
->> That doesn't really need to be in a BEGIN. This patch moves it to
->> `import`, and makes this disable wrap18n:
->> `use Locale::Po4a::Common q{nowrapi18n}` --[[Joey]]
-
-<pre>
---- /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Common.pm 2008-07-21 14:54:52.000000000 -0400
-+++ Common.pm 2008-11-11 18:27:34.000000000 -0500
-@@ -30,8 +30,16 @@
- use strict;
- use warnings;
-
--BEGIN {
-- if (eval { require Text::WrapI18N }) {
-+sub import {
-+ my $class=shift;
-+ my $wrapi18n=1;
-+ if ($_[0] eq 'nowrapi18n') {
-+ shift;
-+ $wrapi18n=0;
-+ }
-+ $class->export_to_level(1, $class, @_);
-+
-+ if ($wrapi18n && eval { require Text::WrapI18N }) {
-
- # Don't bother determining the wrap column if we cannot wrap.
- my $col=$ENV{COLUMNS};
-</pre>
-
-##### Term::ReadKey
-
-`Term::ReadKey` is not a hard dependency in our case, *i.e.* po4a
-works nicely without it. But the po4a Debian package recommends
-`libterm-readkey-perl`, so it will probably be installed on most
-systems using the po plugin.
-
-If `$ENV{COLUMNS}` is not set, `Locale::Po4a::Common` uses
-`Term::ReadKey::GetTerminalSize()` to get the terminal size. How safe
-is this?
-
-Part of `Term::ReadKey` is written in C. Depending on the runtime
-platform, this function use ioctl, environment, or C library function
-calls, and may end up running the `resize` command (without
-arguments).
-
-IMHO, using Term::ReadKey has too far reaching implications for us to
-be able to guarantee anything wrt. security. Since it is anyway of no
-use in our case, I suggest we define `ENV{COLUMNS}` before loading
-`Locale::Po4a::Common`, just to be on the safe side. Joey?
-[[--intrigeri]]
-
-> Update: adding an option to disable `Text::WrapI18N`, as Nicolas
-> François suggested, would as a bonus disable `Term::ReadKey`
-> as well. [[--intrigeri]]
-
-### msgmerge
-
-`refreshpofiles()` runs this external program. A po4a developer
-answered he does "not expect any security issues from it".
-
-### msgfmt
-
-`isvalidpo()` runs this external program. Its security should be checked.
-
-### Fuzzing input
-
-I was not able to find any public information about gettext or po4a
-having been tested with a fuzzing program, such as `zzuf` or `fusil`.
-Moreover, some gettext parsers seem to be quite
-[easy to crash](http://fusil.hachoir.org/trac/browser/trunk/fuzzers/fusil-gettext),
-so it might be useful to bang msgmerge/po4a's heads against such
-a program in order to easily detect some of the most obvious DoS.
-[[--intrigeri]]
-
-> po4a was not fuzzy-tested, but according to one of its developers,
-> "it would be really appreciated". [[--intrigeri]]
-
-Test conditions:
-
-- a 21M file containing 100 concatenated copies of all the files in my
- `/usr/share/common-licenses/`; I had no existing PO file or
- translated versions at hand, which renders these tests
- quite incomplete.
-- po4a was the Debian 0.34-2 package; the same tests were also run
- after replacing the `Text` module with the CVS one (the core was not
- changed in CVS since 0.34-2 was released), without any significant
- difference in the results.
-- Perl 5.10.0-16
-
-#### po4a-gettextize
-
-`po4a-gettextize` uses more or less the same po4a features as our
-`refreshpot` function.
-
-Without specifying an input charset, zzuf'ed `po4a-gettextize` quickly
-errors out, complaining it was not able to detect the input charset;
-it leaves no incomplete file on disk.
-
-So I had to pretend the input was in UTF-8, as does the po plugin.
-
-Two ways of crashing were revealed by this command-line:
-
- zzuf -vc -s 0:100 -r 0.1:0.5 \
- po4a-gettextize -f text -o markdown -M utf-8 -L utf-8 \
- -m LICENSES >/dev/null
-
-They are:
-
- Malformed UTF-8 character (UTF-16 surrogate 0xdcc9) in substitution iterator at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 1443.
- Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 1443.
-
-and
-
- Malformed UTF-8 character (UTF-16 surrogate 0xdcec) in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 1443.
- Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 1443.
-
-Perl seems to exit cleanly, and an incomplete PO file is written on
-disk. I not sure whether if this is a bug in Perl or in `Po.pm`.
-
-> It's fairly standard perl behavior when fed malformed utf-8. As long as it doesn't
-> crash ikiwiki, it's probably acceptable. Ikiwiki can do some similar things itself when fed malformed utf-8 (doesn't crash tho) --[[Joey]]
-
-#### po4a-translate
+[[./security]] contains a detailed security analysis of this plugin
+and its dependencies.
-`po4a-translate` uses more or less the same po4a features as our
-`filter` function.
+When using po4a older than 0.35, it is recommended to uninstall
+`Text::WrapI18N` (Debian package `libtext-wrapi18n-perl`), in order to
+avoid a potential denial of service.
-Without specifying an input charset, same behaviour as
-`po4a-gettextize`, so let's specify UTF-8 as input charset as of now.
-
- zzuf -cv \
- po4a-translate -d -f text -o markdown -M utf-8 -L utf-8 \
- -k 0 -m LICENSES -p LICENSES.fr.po -l test.fr
-
-... prints tons of occurences of the following error, but a complete
-translated document is written (obviously with some weird chars
-inside):
-
- Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm line 854.
- Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm line 840.
- Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm line 1002.
-
-While:
-
- zzuf -cv -s 0:10 -r 0.001:0.3 \
- po4a-translate -d -f text -o markdown -M utf-8 -L utf-8 \
- -k 0 -m LICENSES -p LICENSES.fr.po -l test.fr
-
-... seems to lose the fight, at the `readpo(LICENSES.fr.po)` step,
-against some kind of infinite loop, deadlock, or any similar beast.
-It does not seem to eat memory, though.
-
-Whatever format module is used does not change anything. This is thus
-probably a bug in po4a's core or in a lib it depends on.
-
-The sub `read`, in `TransTractor.pm`, seems to be a good debugging
-starting point.
-
-#### msgmerge
-
-`msgmerge` is run in our `refreshpofiles` function. I did not manage
-to crash it with `zzuf`.
-
-gettext/po4a rough corners
---------------------------
-
-- fix infinite loop when synchronizing two ikiwiki (when checkouts
- live in different directories): say bla.fr.po has been updated in
- repo2; pulling repo2 from repo1 seems to trigger a PO update, that
- changes bla.fr.po in repo1; then pushing repo1 to repo2 triggers
- a PO update, that changes bla.fr.po in repo2; etc.; quickly fixed in
- `629968fc89bced6727981c0a1138072631751fee`, by disabling references
- in Pot files. Using `Locale::Po4a::write_if_needed` might be
- a cleaner solution. (warning: this function runs the external
- `diff` program, have to check security)
-- new translations created in the web interface must get proper
- charset/encoding gettext metadata, else the next automatic PO update
- removes any non-ascii chars; possible solution: put such metadata
- into the Pot file, and let it propagate; should be fixed in
- `773de05a7a1ee68d2bed173367cf5e716884945a`, time will tell.
+TODO
+====
Better links
------------
[[bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles]] from
[[intrigeri]]'s `meta` branch, the generated links' text is based on
the page titles set with the [[meta|plugins/meta]] plugin. This has to
-be merged upstream, though.
-
-Translation quality assurance
------------------------------
-
-Modifying a PO file via the CGI is already forbidden if the new
-version is not a valid PO file. As a bonus, check that it provides
-a more complete translation than the existing one.
-
-Note: committing to the underlying repository is a way to bypass
-this check.
-
-Creating new pages on the web
------------------------------
-
-See [[contrib/po|contrib/po]].
+be merged into ikiwiki upstream, though.
Robustness tests
----------------
-### Disabling the plugin
+### Enabling/disabling the plugin
-- enabling the plugin with `po_translatable_pages` set
-- enabling the plugin without `po_translatable_pages` set: **OK**
-- disabling the plugin: **OK**
+* enabling the plugin with `po_translatable_pages` set to blacklist: **OK**
+* enabling the plugin with `po_translatable_pages` set to whitelist: **OK**
+* enabling the plugin without `po_translatable_pages` set: **OK**
+* disabling the plugin: **OK**
### Changing the plugin config
-- adding existing pages to `po_translatable_pages`: **OK**
-- removing existing pages from `po_translatable_pages`: **OK**
-- adding a language to `po_slave_languages`: **OK**
-- removing a language from `po_slave_languages`: **OK**
-- changing `po_master_language`: **OK**
-- replacing `po_master_language` with a language previously part of
+* adding existing pages to `po_translatable_pages`: **OK**
+* removing existing pages from `po_translatable_pages`: **OK**
+* adding a language to `po_slave_languages`: **OK**
+* removing a language from `po_slave_languages`: **OK**
+* changing `po_master_language`: **OK**
+* replacing `po_master_language` with a language previously part of
`po_slave_languages`: needs two rebuilds, but **OK** (this is quite
a perverse test actually)
-### Creating pages
+### Creating/deleting/renaming pages
-- creating a master page via RCS: **OK**
-- creating a master page via CGI: **OK**
-
-### Deleting pages
-
-- removing a master page via RCS: **OK**
-- removing a translation via RCS: **OK**
-- removing a master page via CGI: **OK**
-- removing a translation via CGI: **OK**
-
-### Renaming pages
-
-- renaming a master page via RCS: **OK** (but the old translations
- are lost, because not all RCS track file renaming)
-- renaming a master page and its translations via RCS: **OK**
-- renaming a master page via CGI: **OK**
-- renaming a translation via RCS
-- renaming a translation via CGI
+All cases of master/slave page creation/deletion/rename, both via RCS
+and via CGI, have been tested.
### Misc
-- general test with `usedirs` disabled: **OK**
-- general test with `indexpages` enabled
-- general test with `po_link_to=default`
+* general test with `usedirs` disabled: **OK**
+* general test with `indexpages` enabled: **not OK**
+* general test with `po_link_to=default` with `userdirs` enabled: **OK**
+* general test with `po_link_to=default` with `userdirs` disabled: **OK**
+
+Misc. bugs
+----------
Documentation
-------------
Maybe write separate documentation depending on the people it targets:
translators, wiki administrators, hackers. This plugin may be complex
enough to deserve this.
-
-Gettext-ize the plugin code.