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Fedora 36: 2023-003e7d2867 Critical: Git Update for Injection Issues

fedora
Calendar Grey May 12, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The release of Git 2.40.1 resolves a series of security vulnerabilities, notably dealing with the potential for arbitrary configuration manipulation and buffer overflow exploits.
update to 2.40.1 (CVE-2023-25652, CVE-2023-25815, CVE-2023-29007) Refer to the release notes for 2.30.9 for details of each CVE as well as the following security advisories from th...

Summary

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an

unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations

and full access to internals.

The git rpm installs common set of tools which are usually using with

small amount of dependencies. To install all git packages, including

tools for integrating with other SCMs, install the git-all meta-package.

update to 2.40.1 (CVE-2023-25652, CVE-2023-25815, CVE-2023-29007) Refer to the

release notes for 2.30.9 for details of each CVE as well as the following

security advisories from the git project:

https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-2hvf-7c8p-28fx

(CVE-2023-25652)

https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-v48j-4xgg-4844

(CVE-2023-29007) (At this time there is no upstream advisory for

CVE-2023-25815. This issue does not affect the Fedora packages as we do not use

the runtime prefix support.) Release notes:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/v2.30.9/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.9.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/v2.40.1/Documentation/RelNotes/2.40.1.txt

* Tue Apr 25 2023 Todd Zullinger - 2.40.1-1

- update to 2.40.1 (CVE-2023-25652, CVE-2023-25815, CVE-2023-29007)

[ 1 ] Bug #2188333 - CVE-2023-25652 git: by feeding specially crafted input to `git apply --reject`, a path outside the working tree can be overwritten with partially controlled contents

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188333

[ 2 ] Bug #2188338 - CVE-2023-29007 git: arbitrary configuration injection when renaming or deleting a section from a configuration file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188338

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-003e7d2867' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 36
Version: 2.40.1
Release: 1.fc36
Summary: Fast Version Control System

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