Gentoo: GLSA-200903-15 High Severity: Gitweb Remote Command Execution
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March 9, 2009
Multiple vulnerabilities in gitweb allow for remote execution of arbitrary commands.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-15
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: git: Multiple vulnerabilties
Date: March 09, 2009
Bugs: #251343
ID: 200903-15
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in gitweb allow for remote execution of
arbitrary commands.
Background
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GIT - the stupid content tracker, the revision control system used by
the Linux kernel team.
Affected packages
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1 dev-util/git < 1.6.0.6 >= 1.6.0.6
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in gitweb that is part of
the git package:
* Shell metacharacters related to git_search are not properly
sanitized (CVE-2008-5516).
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