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Git Vulnerability Exposed; Patch Now or Be Hacked Later

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 22, 2014

The vulnerability has been identified as CVE-2014-9390 and impacts Git clients running on Windows and Mac OS X. Git is an open-source source-code management system used by developers on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, and includes both a host server-side component as well as a local client on developer machines. Git is also the open-source technology behind the popular GitHub code repository. –
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