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Fix #8886: Don't try to resolve folders within tars named '.' #8893

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@LordAro LordAro commented Mar 25, 2021

Motivation / Problem

Through mildly nefarious means, you can create a tar that has a "root folder" named .. In standard file systems, this is the current directory. But OTTD (without the tar filename to realise it's supposed to be within a tarfile, falls back to the standard directory resolving, which includes the the current directory, and can cause OTTD to try to load text files from that directory, rather than from within the tar

#8006 is beneficial here too, though no longer required for #8886

Description

Resolve the . (by ignoring it). This causes OTTD to not be able to find the grf/content item, which means it can't try to access textfiles in the wrong directory.

Limitations

Might want to add some sort of debug output for when this occurs? It's currently very unclear why a GRF has been silently rejected.
It should be noted that this cannot be "exploited" by bananas-downloaded content, as it would be rejected at that level.

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Some things are not automated, and forgotten often. This list is a reminder for the reviewers.

  • The bug fix is important enough to be backported? (label: 'backport requested')
  • This PR affects the save game format? (label 'savegame upgrade')
  • This PR affects the GS/AI API? (label 'needs review: Script API')
    • ai_changelog.hpp, gs_changelog.hpp need updating.
    • The compatibility wrappers (compat_*.nut) need updating.
  • This PR affects the NewGRF API? (label 'needs review: NewGRF')

@LordAro LordAro added the backport requested This PR should be backport to current release (RC / stable) label Mar 25, 2021
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@LordAro LordAro merged commit 2d7b34b into OpenTTD:master Mar 28, 2021
@LordAro LordAro deleted the bug8886 branch March 28, 2021 08:52
@TrueBrain TrueBrain added backported This PR is backported to a current release (RC / stable) and removed backport requested This PR should be backport to current release (RC / stable) labels Apr 1, 2021
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