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		foota on April 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Remote code execution, git, and OS X presumably because you can easily update git on Fedora

bndr on April 18, 2016 [–]

When I do `dnf update git` I get at most 2.4.11/2.5.5, the only way I can get the latest is to compile from source.

EDIT: OK. So the fixes were backported

foota on April 18, 2016 | [–]

From what it sounded like in the article though you can't even easily replace the OSX binary for git, even if you compile it yourself.

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