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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] daemon: Skip unknown "extra arg" information
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 20:56:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906072056.08680.j6t@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090605013332.GV3355@spearce.org>

On Freitag, 5. Juni 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Actually, we're already f'kd.  We can't change the protocol like
> we had hoped.  I still think this should go in maint.
>
> --8<--
> daemon: Strictly parse the "extra arg" part of the command
>
> Since 1.4.4.5 (49ba83fb67 "Add virtualization support to git-daemon")
> git daemon enters an infinite loop and never terminates if a client
> hides any extra arguments in the initial request line which is not
> exactly "\0host=blah\0".

I see you applied this to maint. Since this patch actually fixes a 
DoS-exploitable bug, shouldn't it be applied all the way back to 1.4.4.5?

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-07 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-04 22:08 [PATCH] daemon: Skip unknown "extra arg" information Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-05  0:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-05  1:33   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-05  8:41     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-05 13:16     ` Sergey Vlasov
2009-06-07 18:56     ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2009-06-07 20:29       ` Junio C Hamano

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