Gentoo: GLSA-200907-05 Normal: git-daemon Denial of Service
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July 12, 2009
An error in git-daemon might lead to a Denial of Service via resource consumption.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200907-05
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: git: git-daemon Denial of Service
Date: July 12, 2009
Bugs: #273905
ID: 200907-05
Synopsis
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An error in git-daemon might lead to a Denial of Service via resource
consumption.
Background
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git - the stupid content tracker, the revision control system used by
the Linux kernel team.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-util/git < 1.6.3.3 >= 1.6.3.3
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Shawn O. Pearce reported that git-daemon runs into an infinite loop
when handling requests that contain unrecognized arguments.
Impact
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A remote unauthenticated attacke...
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