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1 Git v2.5.5 Release Notes
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4 Fixes since v2.5.4
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7 * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap
8 corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of
9 pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API. Both of
10 these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer
11 when formulating pathnames while tree traversal.