[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: git-1.5.4.3-3.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-11653
2008-12-21 23:04:41
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Name        : git
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.5.4.3
Release     : 3.fc8
URL         : http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
Summary     : Git core and 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.

This is a dummy package which brings in all subpackages.

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Update Information:

This update fixes a local privilege escalation bug in gitweb.  For details:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103624
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Dec 20 2008 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> 1.5.4.3-3
- Fix local privilege escalation bug in gitweb
  (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103624)
* Tue Feb 26 2008 Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> 1.5.4.3-2
- Do not silently overwrite /etc/httpd/conf.d/git.conf
* Sun Feb 24 2008 James Bowes <jbowes at redhat.com> 1.5.4.3-1
- git-1.5.4.3
* Sun Feb 10 2008 James Bowes <jbowes at redhat.com> 1.5.4.1-1
- git-1.5.4.1
* Mon Feb  4 2008 James Bowes <jbowes at redhat.com> 1.5.4-2
- Own datadir/gitk
* Mon Feb  4 2008 James Bowes <jbowes at redhat.com> 1.5.4-1
- git-1.5.4
* Tue Jan  8 2008 James Bowes <jbowes at redhat.com> 1.5.3.8-1
- git-1.5.3.8
* Fri Dec 21 2007 James Bowes <jbowes at redhat.com> 1.5.3.7-1
- git-1.5.3.7
- Have git metapackage require explicit versions (bug 247214)
* Tue Nov 27 2007 Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> 1.5.3.6-1
- git-1.5.3.6
- git-core requires perl(Error) (bug 367861)
- git-svn requires perl(Term:ReadKey) (bug 261361)
- git-email requires perl-Git (bug 333061)
* Wed Oct 24 2007 Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak at redhat.com> 1.5.3.4-2
- git-Perl requires Error package
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #477523 - git: gitweb local privilege escalation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477523
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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/.

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