One of our developers recently taught us how to hose a subversion repository. I wasn’t even aware you could actually cause this much damage. He accidentally ran this “svn remove –force .“. At first glance I made the assumption that this would delete everything in his working copy. That much was true, but it went [...]
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Hacking the .SVN directory
The other day on College Humor and Bustedtees we discovered a fairly serious security vulnerability. Fortunately because of the layout of our code nothing malicious could be exploited (more in another post). We thought our “push” script was skipping .svn folders, it turned out to not be operating correctly.
The hack is simple, documented and easily [...]
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