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Fedora 12: 2010-8419 Urgent: SSH Service Exploit Resolution

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Calendar Grey June 24, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This Ubuntu upgrade resolves a security flaw in sshd, enhancing protection for all users.
This update fixes a Denial of Service vulnerability in git-daemon.

Summary

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:

This update fixes a Denial of Service vulnerability in git-daemon.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update critical Fedora Denial of Service git-daemon

Change Log

* Fri Jun 19 2009 Todd Zullinger - 1.6.2.5-1 - Update to 1.6.2.5 - Fix git-daemon hang on invalid input (CVE-2009-2108, bug 505761)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #505761 - CVE-2009-2108 git daemon Denial of Service with unknown "extra arg" information https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505761

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update git' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: git
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 1.6.2.5
Release: 1.fc11
URL: https://git-scm.com/
Summary: Core git tools

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update critical Fedora Denial of Service git-daemon

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