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Gentoo: GLSA-200903-15 High Severity: Gitweb Remote Command Execution

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Calendar Grey March 9, 2009
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The Gentoo Linux Security Announce (GLSA) 200903-15 alerts about severe vulnerabilities in the gitweb package, which pose remote exploitation risks and compromise data security
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 ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in gitweb allow for remote execution of arbitrary commands.
Background ========= GIT - the stupid content tracker, the revision control system used by the Linux kernel team.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-util/git < 1.6.0.6 >= 1.6.0.6
========== 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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