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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-11678 (git)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: git-1.6.0.6-1.fc10
Date:  Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:41:27 +0000
Message-ID:  <20081221234127.4A31420876C@bastion.fedora.phx.redhat.com>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-11678 2008-12-21 23:04:58 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : git Product : Fedora 10 Version : 1.6.0.6 Release : 1.fc10 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... There are also a number of bugs fixed upstream. For details, see the upstream release notes: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-... Gitk has been added as a requirement of git-gui (bug 476308) Update to 1.6.0.5 to pick up a number of smaller bugfixes from upstream -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sat Dec 20 2008 Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> 1.6.0.6-1 - git-1.6.0.6 - Fixes a local privilege escalation bug in gitweb (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/1...) - Add gitk Requires to git-gui (bug 476308) * Thu Dec 11 2008 Josh Boyer <jboyer@gmail.com> 1.6.0.5-1 - git-1.6.0.5 * Mon Nov 17 2008 Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> - switch from /srv/git to /var/lib/git-daemon for packaging rules compliance * Fri Nov 14 2008 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> 1.6.0.4-1 - git-1.6.0.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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