gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200809-16.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200809-16">
  <title>Git: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in Git.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">git</product>
  <announced>September 25, 2008</announced>
  <revised>September 25, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>234075</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-util/git" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.5.6.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.5.6.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Git is a distributed version control system.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Multiple boundary errors in the functions diff_addremove() and
    diff_change() when processing overly long repository path names were
    reported.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to run commands like "git-diff"
    or "git-grep" on a specially crafted repository, possibly resulting in
    the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user
    running the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Git users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-util/git-1.5.6.4&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3546">CVE-2008-3546</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:13:42 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:16:38 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:39:05 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>