From: Ivan Kanis <ivan.kanis@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 07:35:23 GMT
Subject: Re: security flaw with smart http
Message-ID: <87obo3j3d0.fsf@visionobjects.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmx3vp2co.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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.
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Ivan Kanis, Release Manager, Vision Objects,

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