From fed2216d997d57c2931fd59946c6d48bc9544311 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: danieldg
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 22:50:49 +0000
Subject: Remove the ServerConfig::DirValid check that breaks symlinks

This was included as a security check to prevent symlink attacks,
but this is no longer useful; anyone who can exploit the attack now
can just modify the ircd itself.

git-svn-id: http://svn.inspircd.org/repository/trunk/inspircd@11390 e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7
---
 src/configreader.cpp | 58 ----------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 58 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/configreader.cpp')

diff --git a/src/configreader.cpp b/src/configreader.cpp
index 0fcf88e9d..51045ef58 100644
--- a/src/configreader.cpp
+++ b/src/configreader.cpp
@@ -2046,64 +2046,6 @@ char* ServerConfig::CleanFilename(char* name)
 }
 
 
-bool ServerConfig::DirValid(const char* dirandfile)
-{
-#ifdef WINDOWS
-	return true;
-#else
-
-	char work[1024];
-	char buffer[1024];
-	char otherdir[1024];
-	int p;
-
-	strlcpy(work, dirandfile, 1024);
-	p = strlen(work);
-
-	// we just want the dir
-	while (*work)
-	{
-		if (work[p] == '/')
-		{
-			work[p] = '\0';
-			break;
-		}
-
-		work[p--] = '\0';
-	}
-
-	// Get the current working directory
-	if (getcwd(buffer, 1024 ) == NULL )
-		return false;
-
-	if (chdir(work) == -1)
-		return false;
-
-	if (getcwd(otherdir, 1024 ) == NULL )
-		return false;
-
-	if (chdir(buffer) == -1)
-		return false;
-
-	size_t t = strlen(work);
-
-	if (strlen(otherdir) >= t)
-	{
-		otherdir[t] = '\0';
-		if (!strcmp(otherdir,work))
-		{
-			return true;
-		}
-
-		return false;
-	}
-	else
-	{
-		return false;
-	}
-#endif
-}
-
 std::string ServerConfig::GetFullProgDir()
 {
 	char buffer[PATH_MAX];
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