From: Ivan Kanis <ivan.kanis@googlemail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: security flaw with smart http
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:35:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obo3j3d0.fsf@visionobjects.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmx3vp2co.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:34:47 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> a écrit
> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Ivan Kanis <ivan.kanis@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> I think we found a security flaw with git http smart backend. We are
>>> running git version 1.0.7.4 on our server. Adding random words after the
>>> password and the authentication still succeeds.
>>
>> git http-backend does not handle authentication or authorization. This
>> is handled in your web server. You should consult your web server's
>> documentation, and maybe its configuration files.
>
> Very good advice.
In case someone is reading this thread I confirm the problem comes from
Apache.
--
Ivan Kanis, Release Manager, Vision Objects,
Le mal est un mulet : il est opiniâtre et stérile.
-- Victor Hugo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-28 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-22 10:12 security flaw with smart http Ivan Kanis
2012-06-22 17:54 ` Shawn Pearce
2012-06-22 19:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-25 11:24 ` Philippe Vaucher
2012-06-25 12:59 ` Ivan Kanis
2012-06-25 13:10 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-06-28 7:35 ` Ivan Kanis [this message]
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