Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tag -1 - security

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 02:53:24AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2022-09-18 14:40:36 -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> > You're saying that the change you were preparing was lost, but nothing
> > was actually changed in svn, right?
> 
> Yes. What happens is that svn retrieves the current property value
> from the server, puts it in a file "/tmp/svn-prop.tmp" and runs an
> editor on this file. The user modifies this file and quits the
> editor. Then svn normally updates this property on the server
> (from the modified svn-prop.tmp) and removes this temporary file.
> The issue is that svn removes this file even when the update fails.

Ok.  I don't see this as either "critical" or a security issue.  "Data
loss" implies the actual versioned data is corrupted/lost.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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