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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2016-5a99f2af94
2016-05-23 19:56:20.750741
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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.
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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.
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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
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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/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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