Debian: DSA-2114-1 Critical: Git-Core Buffer Overflow Issue Fix

The original security issue allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary
code if he could trick a local user to execute a git command in a
crafted working directory (CVE-2010-2542).

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.5.6.5-3+lenny3.2.

The packages for the hppa architecture are not included in this
advisory. However, the hppa architecture is not known to be affected
by the regression.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), the security issue has been fixed in version 1.7.1-1.1. These
distributions were not affected by the regression.

We recommend that you upgrade your git-core packages.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

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