{"thread":{"id":"3166","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.1.5","startedAt":"2006-01-28T04:48:33Z","lastAt":"2006-01-31T17:38:19Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","Eric Sandall"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"15174","messageId":"7virs5x8im.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","threadId":"3166","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.1.5","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"junkio@cox.net","sentAt":"2006-01-28T04:48:33Z","receivedAt":"2006-01-28T04:48:33Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"The latest maintenance release GIT 1.1.5 is available at the\nusual places:\n\n\thttp://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\n\tgit-1.1.5.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(tarball)\n\tRPMS/$arch/git-*-1.1.5-1.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n\nMark Wooding noticed that there is a bug in git-checkout-index\nto overflow its internal buffer, if you construct a blob that\nrecords an insanely long symbolic link in your index file and\ntry to check it out.  This makes it dump core or worse.  \n\nThe fix for this problem is the only change from v1.1.4.  The\nmaster branch has been updated with the same fix (so has \"pu\").\n\n\n---\n\nBy the way, \"dump core or worse\" is a subtle way to say that\nthis is a security fix.  To be victimized, you have to somehow\nfirst get such a bogus symbolic link in your index.  Merging\nwith somebody of dubious trustworthiness is a way to do so;\nplease practice safe merge ;-).\n"},{"id":"15307","messageId":"Pine.LNX.4.63.0601310937490.29839@cerberus","threadId":"3166","inReplyTo":"7virs5x8im.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","subject":"Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.1.5","fromName":"Eric Sandall","fromEmail":"eric@sandall.us","sentAt":"2006-01-31T17:38:19Z","receivedAt":"2006-01-31T17:38:19Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"eric@sandall.us","avatar":null},"body":"-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nOn Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> The latest maintenance release GIT 1.1.5 is available at the\n> usual places:\n>\n> \thttp://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n>\n> \tgit-1.1.5.tar.{gz,bz2}\t\t\t(tarball)\n> \tRPMS/$arch/git-*-1.1.5-1.$arch.rpm\t(RPM)\n>\n> Mark Wooding noticed that there is a bug in git-checkout-index\n> to overflow its internal buffer, if you construct a blob that\n> records an insanely long symbolic link in your index file and\n> try to check it out.  This makes it dump core or worse.\n>\n> The fix for this problem is the only change from v1.1.4.  The\n> master branch has been updated with the same fix (so has \"pu\").\n>\n>\n> ---\n>\n> By the way, \"dump core or worse\" is a subtle way to say that\n> this is a security fix.  To be victimized, you have to somehow\n> first get such a bogus symbolic link in your index.  Merging\n> with somebody of dubious trustworthiness is a way to do so;\n> please practice safe merge ;-).\n\nI've updated the Source Mage GNU/Linux package, thanks!\n\n- -sandalle\n\n- --\nEric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer\neric@sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/\nhttp://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU\nhttp://counter.li.org/  #196285  |  http://www.shock.wsu.edu/\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)\n\niD8DBQFD36CPHXt9dKjv3WERAhpUAKCXdVE+RgUUEY2BGl2jf0Bicdo7lgCgu/PJ\nyfRqXjYEzA8etWJBWQ+fK7E=\n=4UVq\n-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----\n"}]}