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List:       oss-security
Subject:    Re: [oss-security] CVE request: git
From:       Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat ! com>
Date:       2010-07-22 21:20:16
Message-ID: 1959240262.1279521279833616868.JavaMail.root () zmail01 ! collab ! prod ! int ! phx2 ! redhat ! com
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Please use CVE-2010-2542

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Greg Brockman" <gdb@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> A fix for an exploitable buffer overrun was committed to git in [1].
> In particular, if an attacker were to create a crafted working copy
> where the user runs any git command, the attacker could force
> execution of arbitrary code.
> 
> This attack should be mitigated to a denial of service if git is
> compiled with appropriate stack-protecting flags.
> 
> This buffer overrun was introduced in [2], which first appeared in
> v1.5.6, and is fixed in v1.7.2.
> 
> Greg
> 
> [1]
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=3c9d0414ed2db0167e6c828b547be8fc9f88fccc
> [2]
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=b44ebb19e3234c5dffe9869ceac5408bb44c2e20
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