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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-11650 (git)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: git-1.5.6.6-1.fc9
Date:  Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:39:46 +0000
Message-ID:  <20081221233946.3B71B20874A@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-11650 2008-12-21 23:04:38 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : git Product : Fedora 9 Version : 1.5.6.6 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes a local privilege escalation bug in gitweb. For details: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/1... Additionally, gitk has been added as a requirement of git-gui (bug 476308) and perl(Net::SMTP::SSL) has been added as a requirement of git-send-email (bug 443615). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sat Dec 20 2008 Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> 1.5.6.6-1 - git-1.5.6.6 - Fixes a local privilege escalation bug in gitweb - Make git-email require perl(Net::SMTP::SSL) (bug 443615) - Add gitk Requires to git-gui (bug 476308) * Wed Oct 22 2008 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> 1.5.6.5-1 - git-1.5.6.5 (bug 458156) * Mon May 26 2008 James Bowes <jbowes@redhat.com> 1.5.5.2-1 - git-1.5.5.2 * Fri May 23 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> 1.5.5.1-1.1 - minor rebuild for sparc * Mon Apr 21 2008 James Bowes <jbowes@redhat.com> 1.5.5.1-1 - git-1.5.5.1 * Wed Apr 9 2008 James Bowes <jbowes@redhat.com> 1.5.5-1 - git-1.5.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #477523 - git: gitweb local privilege escalation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477523 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. 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 http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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