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From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 10:13:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] file: on Windows, refuse paths that start with \\
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... as that might cause an unexpected SMB connection to a given host
name.

Reported-by: Fernando Muñoz
CVE-2019-15601
Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2019-15601.html
---
 lib/file.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/file.c b/lib/file.c
index d349cd924..166931d7f 100644
--- a/lib/file.c
+++ b/lib/file.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static CURLcode file_connect(struct connectdata *conn, bool *done)
   struct Curl_easy *data = conn->data;
   char *real_path;
   struct FILEPROTO *file = data->req.protop;
-  int fd;
+  int fd = -1;
 #ifdef DOS_FILESYSTEM
   size_t i;
   char *actual_path;
@@ -181,7 +181,9 @@ static CURLcode file_connect(struct connectdata *conn, bool *done)
       return CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT;
     }
 
-  fd = open_readonly(actual_path, O_RDONLY|O_BINARY);
+  if(strncmp("\\\\", actual_path, 2))
+    /* refuse to open path that starts with two backslashes */
+    fd = open_readonly(actual_path, O_RDONLY|O_BINARY);
   file->path = actual_path;
 #else
   if(memchr(real_path, 0, real_path_len)) {