git: stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability

Users of git please be advised of a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that has been identified.

To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)

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MDVSA-2010:194: [MDVSA-2010:194] git stack-based buffer overflow

Problem Description: A vulnerability has been found and corrected in git: Stack-based buffer overflow in the is_git_directory function in setup.c in Git before 1.7.2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a long gitdir: field in a .git file in a working copy (CVE-2010-2542). Read more at www.criticalwatch.com

 

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