utf-8 filename woes

[Jeremy Harris <jgh@wizmail.org>]

Hi,

  I have a git version 1.7.1 running on Scientific Linux 6.
When a filename with UTF-8 is present in a tree-ish the
"git archive" command crashes:

------------%%----------------
*** buffer overflow detected ***: git terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x32c1502527]
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x32c1500410]
/lib64/libc.so.6[0x32c14ff869]
/lib64/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0xc9)[0x32c1474639]
/lib64/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x11d8)[0x32c14451a8]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0x9d)[0x32c14ff90d]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x7f)[0x32c14ff84f]
git[0x4620bc]
git[0x4616bc]
git[0x4bd832]
git[0x4bda79]
git[0x4bda79]
git[0x4613e1]
git[0x4623ed]
git[0x4612ed]
git[0x40caf3]
git[0x4041a1]
git[0x404382]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x32c141ed5d]
git[0x403ba9]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00510000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 4121
 /usr/bin/git
------------%%----------------

Installing the git-debuginfo package gave no additional
information.   The symptom does not show on a Fedora 21
system with git 2.1.0 (and I note that gitk properly
shows those filenames on f21, and does not on sl6).

Is this a known and fixed issue, or something my sl6
system needs installing?
-- 
Thanks,
  Jeremy