2010/1/15 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:31:57PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
>> > [I'm not on the list, so please CC me on replies]
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> > I noticed that the post-upload hook had been removed in commit
>> > 1456b043fc0f0a395c35d6b5e55b0dad1b6e7acc. The commit message states:
>> >
>> >     This hook runs after "git fetch" in the repository the objects are
>> >     fetched from as the user who fetched, and has security implications.
>> >
>> > I was wondering if someone could shed some light (or links) on what
>> > security implications this hook has?
>>
>> Because receive-pack runs as the user who is pushing, not as the
>> repository owner. So by convincing you to push to my repository in a
>> multi-user environment, I convince you to run some arbitrary code of
>> mine.
>
> Uhhh, this was in fetch/upload-pack Peff, not push/receive-pack.
>
> Same issue though.

Ah, got it - thank you!
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