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Bug 612222 - <dev-vcs/subversion-{1.8.18, 1.9.6}: SHA-1 collision causes repository breakage
Summary: <dev-vcs/subversion-{1.8.18, 1.9.6}: SHA-1 collision causes repository breakage
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa]
Keywords:
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2017-03-10 16:31 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2017-09-01 17:52 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2017-03-10 16:31:33 UTC
From ${URL} :

It was found that commiting a file with the same SHA-1 hash as a file already in the repository would break the repository.

Upstream bug:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4673

Upstream patches:

https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1785053
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1785734
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1785737
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1785738
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1785754

References:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/watershed-sha1-collision-just-broke-the-webkit-repository-others-may-follow/
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2017-February/028795.html


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-09-01 17:52:58 UTC
GLSA Vote: No