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git: denial of service

Package(s):git CVE #(s):CVE-2008-3546
Created:August 13, 2008 Updated:February 23, 2009
Description:

From the rPath advisory:

Previous versions of the git package are vulnerable to a Denial of Service in which repositories using long path-names may cause buffer overflows and application crashes on certain platforms. It has not been determined that this vulnerability can be exploited to execute malicious code.

Alerts:
Slackware SSA:2009-051-02 2009-02-23
Ubuntu USN-723-1 2009-02-18
Fedora FEDORA-2008-9080 2008-10-23
Gentoo 200809-16 2008-09-25
Debian DSA-1637-1 2008-09-15
rPath rPSA-2008-0253-1 2008-08-12

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