Gentoo: GLSA 200809-16 Adverse: Git Code Execution Vulnerability Alert
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September 25, 2008
Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in Git.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200809-16
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Git: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Date: September 25, 2008
Bugs: #234075
ID: 200809-16
Synopsis
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Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in Git.
Background
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Git is a distributed version control system.
Affected packages
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1 dev-util/git < 1.5.6.4 >= 1.5.6.4
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Multiple boundary errors in the functions diff_addremove() and
diff_change() when processing overly long repository path names were
reported.
Impact
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A remote attacker could entice a user to ...
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