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Bug 612222

Summary: <dev-vcs/subversion-{1.8.18, 1.9.6}: SHA-1 collision causes repository breakage
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor CC: polynomial-c, slawomir.nizio
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429936
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

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