[ANNOUNCEMENT] Security update: Git-2.1.4-1

Adam Dinwoodie adam@dinwoodie.org
Sun Jan 11 03:05:00 GMT 2015


Version 2.1.4-1 of Git has been uploaded and should be coming soon to a
mirror near you.  This is a security update of Git to patch
CVE-2014-9390, which would allow an attacker to create a malicious Git
repository which could run arbitrary code on a computer running an
affected version of Git.

This update includes the following packages:

-   git
-   git-completion
-   git-cvs
-   git-debuginfo
-   git-email
-   git-gui
-   gitk
-   git-svn
-   gitk

For a full list of the upstream changes in this release, please refer to
the upstream changelogs:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes

This release also adds font-adobe-dpi75 to the requirement lists for
gitk, as reported by Henri:

https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-01/msg00086.html

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