Fedora 25: git Security Update 2017-66aa5d1d33
Summary
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 common set of tools which are usually using with
small amount of dependencies. To install all git packages, including
tools for integrating with other SCMs, install the git-all meta-package.
These releases are about hardening `git shell` that is used on servers against
an unsafe user input, which `git cvsserver` copes with poorly. From the release
notes: * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git shell" by default,
as it is old and largely unmaintained. * Various Perl scripts did not
use safe_pipe_capture() instead of backticks, leaving them susceptible to
end-user input. They have been corrected. Credits go to
joernchen
cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for finding and fixing instances of
the same issue in other scripts. References:
su -c 'dnf upgrade git' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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