-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2016-5a99f2af94 2016-05-23 19:56:20.750741 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : git Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 1.8.2.3 Release : 1.el5 URL : http://git-scm.com/ Summary : Fast Version Control System Description : Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals.
The git rpm installs the core tools with minimal dependencies. To install all git packages, including tools for integrating with other SCMs, install the git-all meta-package.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2016-2315, CVE-2016-2324 and minor upstream bugfix release. The same fix from EL-6 is used, which simply dies when presented with paths that exceed the maximum allowed length (determined by the OS). Refer to the upstream release notes for [1.8.2.2](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Doc umentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt) and [1.8.2.3](https://raw.githubusercontent.com /git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.3.txt) for further details regarding bugfixes since 1.8.2.1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1317981 - CVE-2016-2315 CVE-2016-2324 git: path_name() integer truncation and overflow leading to buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317981 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update git' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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