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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-6839
2009-06-23 20:27:31
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Name        : git
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 1.6.0.6
Release     : 4.fc10
URL         : https://git-scm.com/
Summary     : Core git tools
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a Denial of Service vulnerability in git-daemon.  It also
fixes minor issues when using git-cvsimport and the formatting of the git-daemon
xinetd service description.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun 19 2009 Todd Zullinger  - 1.6.0.6-4
- Fix git-daemon hang on invalid input (CVE-2009-2108, bug 505761)
- Ignore Branches output from cvsps-2.2b1 (bug 490602)
- Escape newline in git-daemon xinetd description (bug 502393)
* Mon Mar  2 2009 Todd Zullinger  - 1.6.0.6-3
- Enable parallel delta searching when packing objects (Roland McGrath)
- Consolidate build/install options in %make_git (Roland McGrath)
- Require perl(Authen::SASL) in git-email (bug 483062)
- Exclude vc-git.el from emacs-git (bug 479531)
- Change /var/lib/git-daemon to /var/lib/git
- Include docs in the git-daemon package
- Drop redundant libcurl Requires
- Update URL field
* Sat Dec 20 2008 Todd Zullinger  1.6.0.6-1
- git-1.6.0.6
- Fixes a local privilege escalation bug in gitweb
  ()
- Add gitk Requires to git-gui (bug 476308)
* Thu Dec 11 2008 Josh Boyer  1.6.0.5-1
- git-1.6.0.5
* Mon Nov 17 2008 Seth Vidal 
- switch from /srv/git to /var/lib/git-daemon for packaging rules compliance
* Fri Nov 14 2008 Josh Boyer  1.6.0.4-1
- git-1.6.0.4
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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
  [ 2 ] Bug #502393 - git-daemon's description is an incomplete sentence
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502393
  [ 3 ] Bug #490602 - git-cvsimport got noisy
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490602
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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 .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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