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So if I understand correctly:

1. OS X ships with a "git" command in /usr/bin that merely looks for the real "git" command inside Xcode or somewhere else and executes it.

2. The vulnerability is inside the real "git" (shipped with Xcode/the Command Line Tools) that Apple apparently cannot be bothered to update.

3. The author complains about not being able to make /usr/bin/git non-executable because of SIP.

Why not just make the real "git" command non-executable and be done with it?

And since /usr/bin/git apparently just delegates, the git vulnerability at least won't endanger most users, since they don't have the real (old, vulnerable, thanks Apple) git installed.



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