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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-3546

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-3546

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/07/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/12/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the (1) diff_addremove and (2) diff_change functions in GIT before 1.5.6.4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a PATH whose length is larger than the system's PATH_MAX when running GIT utilities such as git-diff or git-grep.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-git
  • suse-upgrade-git-arch
  • suse-upgrade-git-core
  • suse-upgrade-git-cvs
  • suse-upgrade-git-email
  • suse-upgrade-git-svn
  • suse-upgrade-gitk
  • suse-upgrade-suse-release

References

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