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bertan on April 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Remote code execution, git, and OS X

  sudo cp /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git /somewhere/to/backup/just/in/case
  sudo rm /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git
  sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/git /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git

pyre on April 18, 2016 [–]

Is the git binary where the vulnerability is... or is it in one of these:

  $ ls $(git --exec-path)

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