[SVN-1832] Invalid property name detection locale issue

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: libsvn_ra_neon
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joe Orton
• Created: 14/Apr/04 12:58
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:40
• Resolved: 10/Mar/09 15:22

Description

Somewhat related to bug 1807:

libsvn_client/prop_commands.c:is_valid_prop_name() tries to detect non-ASCII
names by using isalpha() on a UTF-8 string, but isalpha() is locale-specific.

This allows another way to create properties which mod_dav_svn will reject as
the PROPPATCH request includes invalid XML element names:

e.g.

$ LC_CTYPE=en_US svn propset foo`/bin/echo -e '\265'`bar fish somefile