Secunia Security Advisory - SUSE has issued an update for git. This fixes a security issue and some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to potentially gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
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TITLE:
SUSE update for git
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43457
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DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for git. This fixes a security issue and
some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local
users to potentially gain escalated privileges and by malicious
people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
For more information:
SA41569
SA42645
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
openSUSE-SU-2011:0115-1:
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/7350631
SUSE-SR:2011:004:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00004.html
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