Re: Git Vulnerability Announced?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 31, 2018, 16:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20180531163952.GA9423@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <E1D8F36A-9317-41ED-B761-2AE15B54B927@zillowgroup.com>

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 04:00:38PM +0000, Erika Voss wrote:

> Yes here is what was sent to me - 
> 
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/30/git_vulnerability_could_lead_to_an_attack_of_the_repo_clones/
> https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4212

Yeah, the release announcement from the project is at:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqy3g2flb6.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com/

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> The one that I could find from online was:
> https://git-scm.com/download/mac
> 
> But, the latest version available on this site was 2.17.0, which does
> not include the security patch.

The binary installs for MacOS are done by a third party, and sometimes lag the source releases. You can build it from source yourself, either from a tarball:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.17.1.tar.gz

or by cloning with git:

  https://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

There are some instructions in the INSTALL file, which you can also read online:

  https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/INSTALL

You can also use Homebrew to install, which usually updates to new versions pretty promptly:

  https://brew.sh/

-Peff