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A git security update has been released for Fedora 31.



SECURITY: Fedora 31 Update: git-2.25.3-1.fc31


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-cdef88bb89
2020-04-18 00:06:48.213760
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Name : git
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 2.25.3
Release : 1.fc31
URL :   https://git-scm.com/
Summary : Fast Version Control System
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2020-5260 From the upstream [release
notes](  https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/2.17.4.txt): >
With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential > helper
machinery can be fooled to give credential information for > a wrong host. The
attack has been made impossible by forbidding > a newline character in any value
passed via the credential > protocol.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr 14 2020 Todd Zullinger - 2.25.3-1
- update to 2.25.3 (CVE-2020-5260)
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1822020 - CVE-2020-5260 git: Crafted URL containing new lines can cause credential leak
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1822020
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-cdef88bb89' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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/keys