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Re: [Issue 1796] defective or malicious client can corrupt repository log messages

From: Neels Janosch Hofmeyr <neels_at_elego.de>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 01:19:12 +0200

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Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Neels Janosch Hofmeyr wrote on Sat, 24 May 2008 at 17:04 +0200:
>> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>>> neels_at_tigris.org wrote on Fri, 22 May 2008 at 22:04 -0000:
>>>> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1796
>>>>
>>> According to my tests, 'svn' doesn't normalise log messages to CRLF now
>>> (though it would be nice if it did), so 'svn ci -m "foo\r\nbar"' or svn
>>> ci -F should do.
>> Well, according to my tests ;), it does. Let's break down the different
>> cases, using r31375:
>>
>> === (1) ===
>> Try and pass commandline message.
>>
>> [trunk] neels_at_dub:~/elego/svn/test/wc/r1796
> ^
> Interesting directory name :)
Yeah :)

>> $ svn ci -m "log\n\rmessage\n\r"
> ^^^^
> That's LFCR, not CRLF. I suppose you did that intentionally?
Also yes.

[...]

>> How would I make a -m "message" parameter with CR+LF in it? (like echo
>> -e)
>>
>
> -m "`printf`" ? -m "`cat CRLF-file`" ? python -c 'system()' ? Or throw
> it in a run_svn() call and see if it works :)
>
>> (this case is thus unverified)

Got it covered by this:

$ echo -en "inconsistent\rlog\n\rmsg\r\n" > msg
$ cat -A msg
inconsistent^Mlog$
^Mmsg^M$

$ echo y >> x
$ svn ci -m "`cat msg`"
subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:919: (apr_err=135000)
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
subversion/svn/util.c:660: (apr_err=135000)
svn: Error normalizing log message to internal format
subversion/libsvn_subr/subst.c:735: (apr_err=135000)
svn: Inconsistent line ending style

So, the client also normalizes -m messages.

But, observe:

$ echo -en "log\rmsg\n" > msg

$ cat -A msg
log^Mmsg$

$ echo y >> x

$ svn ci -F msg
subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:919: (apr_err=135000)
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
subversion/svn/util.c:660: (apr_err=135000)
svn: Error normalizing log message to internal format
subversion/libsvn_subr/subst.c:735: (apr_err=135000)
svn: Inconsistent line ending style

$ svn ci -m "`cat msg`"
Sending x
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 5.

$ svn log x | cat -A
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------$
r5 | (no author) | 2008-05-25 01:03:01 +0200 (Sun, 25 May 2008) | 2 lines$
$
log$
msg$
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------$
r4 | (no author) | 2008-05-25 00:55:37 +0200 (Sun, 25 May 2008) | 2 lines$
[...]

Why, I am putting inconsistent line endings on the -m command line, and
the same data that ci -F file rejects is accepted by ci -m "`cat file`".
Furthermore:

$ echo -en "log\rmsg\n\n" > msg
$ cat -A msg
log^Mmsg$
$
$ echo y >> x
$ svn ci -m "`cat msg`"
Sending x
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 6.
[trunk] neels_at_dub:/arch/elego/svn/test/wc/r1796
$ svn log x | cat -A
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------$
r6 | (no author) | 2008-05-25 01:04:19 +0200 (Sun, 25 May 2008) | 2 lines$
$
log$
msg$
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------$
r5 | (no author) | 2008-05-25 01:03:01 +0200 (Sun, 25 May 2008) | 2 lines$
$
log$
msg$
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------$
r4 | (no author) | 2008-05-25 00:55:37 +0200 (Sun, 25 May 2008) | 2 lines$
$
[...]

Adding another newline to the commit message does not add a further
newline in the repository. In the process of evaluating the -m argument,
it is probably stripped of trailing whitespace. I guess that's good
enough, even though it's confusing at first glance. (Note that trailing
newlines in a *valid* log message file are not stripped)

...in summary, the svn commandline client behaves well at normalizing
commit log messages' line ending style, received whichever way.

Thanks for your help, Daniel!

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