Security Advisory
CVE-2008-3546
CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the (1) diff_addremove and (2) diff_change functions in GIT before 1.5.6.4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a PATH whose length is larger than the systems PATH_MAX when running GIT utilities such as git-diff or git-grep.