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authorRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2019-05-03 19:24:42 +0100
committerRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2019-05-03 19:24:42 +0100
commit9b86d3dee69702cd9fa02e7f454fd0e92a7761bb (patch)
tree73bc79d1abde252d6433a6ccfd5ca7956589588e /synapse
parentadd gpg key fingerprint (diff)
parent0.99.3.2 (diff)
downloadsynapse-9b86d3dee69702cd9fa02e7f454fd0e92a7761bb.tar.xz
Merge tag 'v0.99.3.2'
Synapse 0.99.3.2 (2019-05-03)
=============================

Internal Changes
----------------

- Ensure that we have `urllib3` <1.25, to resolve incompatibility with `requests`. ([\#5135](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5135))
Diffstat (limited to 'synapse')
-rw-r--r--synapse/__init__.py2
-rw-r--r--synapse/config/repository.py31
-rw-r--r--synapse/python_dependencies.py8
-rw-r--r--synapse/util/stringutils.py9
4 files changed, 37 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index 6bb5a8b24d..315fa96551 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "0.99.3"
+__version__ = "0.99.3.2"
diff --git a/synapse/config/repository.py b/synapse/config/repository.py
index 3f34ad9b2a..fbfcecc240 100644
--- a/synapse/config/repository.py
+++ b/synapse/config/repository.py
@@ -186,17 +186,21 @@ class ContentRepositoryConfig(Config):
             except ImportError:
                 raise ConfigError(MISSING_NETADDR)
 
-            if "url_preview_ip_range_blacklist" in config:
-                self.url_preview_ip_range_blacklist = IPSet(
-                    config["url_preview_ip_range_blacklist"]
-                )
-            else:
+            if "url_preview_ip_range_blacklist" not in config:
                 raise ConfigError(
                     "For security, you must specify an explicit target IP address "
                     "blacklist in url_preview_ip_range_blacklist for url previewing "
                     "to work"
                 )
 
+            self.url_preview_ip_range_blacklist = IPSet(
+                config["url_preview_ip_range_blacklist"]
+            )
+
+            # we always blacklist '0.0.0.0' and '::', which are supposed to be
+            # unroutable addresses.
+            self.url_preview_ip_range_blacklist.update(['0.0.0.0', '::'])
+
             self.url_preview_ip_range_whitelist = IPSet(
                 config.get("url_preview_ip_range_whitelist", ())
             )
@@ -260,11 +264,12 @@ class ContentRepositoryConfig(Config):
         #thumbnail_sizes:
 %(formatted_thumbnail_sizes)s
 
-        # Is the preview URL API enabled?  If enabled, you *must* specify
-        # an explicit url_preview_ip_range_blacklist of IPs that the spider is
-        # denied from accessing.
+        # Is the preview URL API enabled?
+        #
+        # 'false' by default: uncomment the following to enable it (and specify a
+        # url_preview_ip_range_blacklist blacklist).
         #
-        #url_preview_enabled: false
+        #url_preview_enabled: true
 
         # List of IP address CIDR ranges that the URL preview spider is denied
         # from accessing.  There are no defaults: you must explicitly
@@ -274,6 +279,12 @@ class ContentRepositoryConfig(Config):
         # synapse to issue arbitrary GET requests to your internal services,
         # causing serious security issues.
         #
+        # (0.0.0.0 and :: are always blacklisted, whether or not they are explicitly
+        # listed here, since they correspond to unroutable addresses.)
+        #
+        # This must be specified if url_preview_enabled is set. It is recommended that
+        # you uncomment the following list as a starting point.
+        #
         #url_preview_ip_range_blacklist:
         #  - '127.0.0.0/8'
         #  - '10.0.0.0/8'
@@ -284,7 +295,7 @@ class ContentRepositoryConfig(Config):
         #  - '::1/128'
         #  - 'fe80::/64'
         #  - 'fc00::/7'
-        #
+
         # List of IP address CIDR ranges that the URL preview spider is allowed
         # to access even if they are specified in url_preview_ip_range_blacklist.
         # This is useful for specifying exceptions to wide-ranging blacklisted
diff --git a/synapse/python_dependencies.py b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
index f71e21ff4d..c75119a030 100644
--- a/synapse/python_dependencies.py
+++ b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
@@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ REQUIREMENTS = [
     "attrs>=17.4.0",
 
     "netaddr>=0.7.18",
+
+    # requests is a transitive dep of treq, and urlib3 is a transitive dep
+    # of requests, as well as of sentry-sdk.
+    #
+    # As of requests 2.21, requests does not yet support urllib3 1.25.
+    # (If we do not pin it here, pip will give us the latest urllib3
+    # due to the dep via sentry-sdk.)
+    "urllib3<1.25",
 ]
 
 CONDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS = {
diff --git a/synapse/util/stringutils.py b/synapse/util/stringutils.py
index fdcb375f95..69dffd8244 100644
--- a/synapse/util/stringutils.py
+++ b/synapse/util/stringutils.py
@@ -24,14 +24,19 @@ _string_with_symbols = (
     string.digits + string.ascii_letters + ".,;:^&*-_+=#~@"
 )
 
+# random_string and random_string_with_symbols are used for a range of things,
+# some cryptographically important, some less so. We use SystemRandom to make sure
+# we get cryptographically-secure randoms.
+rand = random.SystemRandom()
+
 
 def random_string(length):
-    return ''.join(random.choice(string.ascii_letters) for _ in range(length))
+    return ''.join(rand.choice(string.ascii_letters) for _ in range(length))
 
 
 def random_string_with_symbols(length):
     return ''.join(
-        random.choice(_string_with_symbols) for _ in range(length)
+        rand.choice(_string_with_symbols) for _ in range(length)
     )