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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2011-02-03 22:46:58 +0100
committerAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@linbit.com>2011-02-03 23:08:03 +0100
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doc: mention the fix for CVE-2010-4651
* NEWS: Mention the fix.
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+* patch now rejects a destination file name that is absolute or that contains
+ a component of "..". This addresses CVE-2010-4651,
* Support for most features of the "diff --git" format: renames and copies,
permission changes, symlink diffs. Caveats:
+ Binary diffs are not supported yet; patch will complain and skip them.