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Comment by acheong08

6 days ago

Commits fixing the bug date back around 3 or 4 weeks. The patched release came 3 weeks ago. Perhaps some parties weren't informed that it's security critical (Homebrew, Arch, etc) and are now scrambling

I'm not privy to the exact communications that happened, but per the Ubuntu changelog they prepared a patch a week ago[1] (which is about the normal timeline for notification per[2]). Homebrew is not on the distros list, so likely wouldn't have got an early notification. Arch is, but remember "The Arch Security Team is a group of volunteers"[3].

[1]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.43.0-1ubuntu7.3

[2]: https://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros

[3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Security_Team

Just went and checked and the latest version on macOS is over a year old..

>git version 2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)