From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, johannes.schindelin@gmx.de,
j.sixt@viscovery.net, Theo Niessink <theo@taletn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH maint 0/3] do not write files outside of work-dir
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 10:57:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vr57krppq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306512040-1468-1-git-send-email-kusmabite@gmail.com> (Erik Faye-Lund's message of "Fri, 27 May 2011 18:00:37 +0200")
Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:
> Theo Niessink has uncovered a serious sercurity issue in Git for Windows,
> where cloning an evil repository can arbitrarily overwrite files outside
> the repository. Since many Windows users run as administrators, this can
> be used for very nasty purposes.
Which of my integration branches do msysGit/Git for Windows folks base
their releases these days? I could carry this through the regular "next to
master and then sometime later to maint" schedule, but if you are not
using maint and basing primarily on master then I'd rather skip the "and
then sometime later to maint" part.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-27 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-27 16:00 [PATCH maint 0/3] do not write files outside of work-dir Erik Faye-Lund
2011-05-27 16:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] A Windows path starting with a backslash is absolute Erik Faye-Lund
2011-05-27 16:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] real_path: do not assume '/' is the path seperator Erik Faye-Lund
2011-05-27 16:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] verify_path: consider dos drive prefix Erik Faye-Lund
2011-05-27 18:58 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-05-30 9:32 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-05-30 10:58 ` Theo Niessink
2011-05-30 11:17 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-06-07 3:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-07 10:07 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-06-07 19:09 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-06-07 19:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-07 19:32 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-06-07 11:46 ` Theo Niessink
2011-05-30 20:23 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-05-27 17:57 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-05-27 18:09 ` [PATCH maint 0/3] do not write files outside of work-dir Johannes Schindelin
2011-05-27 19:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-01 4:14 ` Tait
2011-06-01 6:31 ` Johannes Sixt
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