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An attacker could also modify the .git/config configuration file, which allows the attacker to create malicious Git aliases (aliases for Git commands or external commands) or modify extant aliases to execute malicious commands when run. The vulnerability was patched in version 2.2.1 of Git, released on 17 December 2014, and announced the next day.
Linux portal; libostree (previously OSTree) is a system for versioning updates of Linux-based operating systems. [1] It can be considered "Git for operating system binaries". It operates in userspace, and will work on top of any Linux file system.
VTE is a library (libvte) implementing a terminal emulator widget for GTK, and a minimal sample application (vte) using that. VTE is mainly used in gnome-terminal, but can also be used to embed a console/terminal in games, editors, IDEs, etc. The VTE library provides a terminal emulator widget VteTerminal for applications using the GTK toolkit.
Since its inception, Bash has gained widespread adoption and is commonly used as the default login shell for numerous Linux distributions. [10] It holds historical significance as one of the earliest programs ported to Linux by Linus Torvalds, alongside the GNU Compiler . [11]
Homebrew is a free and open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Apple's operating system, macOS, as well as Linux.The name is intended to suggest the idea of building software on the Mac depending on the user's taste.
pkg-config is a software development tool that queries information about libraries from a local, file-based database for the purpose of building a codebase that depends on them.
Others periodically check the configuration files for changes. Users can instruct some programs to re-read the configuration files and apply the changes to the current process, or indeed to read arbitrary files as a configuration file. There are no definitive standards or strong conventions. A configuration file for GNU GRUB being edited.
APT Daemon, a front end that runs as a service to allow users to install software through PolicyKit and is in turn the framework used by Ubuntu software center (along with the Linux Mint software manager). Package installer, part of MX Linux.