[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: git-1.5.6.5-1.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-9080
2008-10-23 16:04:39
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Name        : git
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 1.5.6.5
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.

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Update Information:


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ChangeLog:

* Wed Oct 22 2008 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> 1.5.6.5-1
- git-1.5.6.5 (bug 458156)
* Mon May 26 2008 James Bowes <jbowes at redhat.com> 1.5.5.2-1
- git-1.5.5.2
* Fri May 23 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> 1.5.5.1-1.1
- minor rebuild for sparc
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #458146 - CVE-2008-3546 git: Pathname Processing Multiple Buffer Overflows
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458146
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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
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