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1 Git v2.17.4 Release Notes
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4 This release is to address the security issue: CVE-2020-5260
6 Fixes since v2.17.3
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9 * With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential
10 helper machinery can be fooled to give credential information for
11 a wrong host. The attack has been made impossible by forbidding
12 a newline character in any value passed via the credential
13 protocol.
15 Credit for finding the vulnerability goes to Felix Wilhelm of Google
16 Project Zero.