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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3546
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CVE-2008-3546

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44217

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-723-1

ST
  1020627

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA31780
  Secunia Advisory: SA31347
  Secunia Advisory: SA32029
  Secunia Advisory: SA33964
  Secunia Advisory: SA32384

MLIST
  http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/7/16/2529284

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-16.xml

FEDORA

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1637

CONFIRM
  http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0253
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.5.6.4.txt

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495391/100/0/threaded

BID
  30549


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