[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: cgit-0.9.2-1.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-9498
2013-05-29 00:21:15
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Name        : cgit
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.9.2
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/
Summary     : A fast web interface for git
Description :
Cgit is a fast web interface for git.  It uses caching to increase performance.

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Update Information:

A directory traversal vulnerability was discovered in cgit.  By default, cgit is not affected.  However, if cgit is configured to use a readme file from a filesystem path instead of from the git repo itself then files outside of the repository can be read.

Refer to the discussion on oss-security for further details:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/25/3
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ChangeLog:

* Mon May 27 2013 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> - 0.9.2-1
- Update to 0.9.2, fixes CVE-2013-2117
* Wed Feb 13 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.1-4
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Nov 21 2012 Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> 0.9.1-3
- Fixed ldflags. Fixes bug 878611
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #967346 - CVE-2013-2117 cgit: directory traversal
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=967346
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update cgit' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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