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Ubuntu 20.04: USN-4825-1 Severe WebKitGTK Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

debian lts
Calendar Grey December 13, 2022
Dist Debian Esm H88
Several vulnerabilities in Git could lead to command execution possibilities and data exposure. Users are advised to perform upgrades for Debian LTS.
Multiple issues were found in Git, a distributed revision control system

Summary

Note: Due to new security checks, access to repositories owned and
accessed by different local users may now be rejected by Git; in case
changing ownership is not practical, git displays a way to bypass
these checks using the new 'safe.directory' configuration entry.

CVE-2022-24765

Git is not checking the ownership of directories in a local
multi-user system when running commands specified in the local
repository configuration. This allows the owner of the repository
to cause arbitrary commands to be executed by other users who
access the repository.

CVE-2022-29187

An unsuspecting user could still be affected by the issue reported
in CVE-2022-24765, for example when navigating as root into a
shared tmp directory that is owned by them, but where an attacker
could create a git repository.

CVE-2022-39253

Exposure of sensitive information to a malicious actor. When
performing a local clone (where the source and target of the clone

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Package: git
Version: 1:2.20.1-2+deb10u5
CVE ID: CVE-2022-24765 CVE-2022-29187 CVE-2022-39253 CVE-2022-39260
Debian Bug: 1014848 1022046

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