MDVSA-2015:169: git

Updated git packages fix security vulnerability:

It was reported that git, when used as a client on a case-insensitive
filesystem, could allow the overwrite of the .git/config file when
the client performed a git pull. Because git permitted committing
.Git/config (or any case variation), on the pull this would replace the
user’s .git/config. If this malicious config file contained defined
external commands (such as for invoking and editor or an external diff
utility) it could allow for the execution of arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running the git client (CVE-2014-9390).

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