MGASA-2018-0395 - Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 14 Oct 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0395.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-17456

joernchen of Phenoelit discovered that git is prone to an arbitrary code
execution vulnerability due to insufficient validation of submodule url
and path via a specially crafted .gitmodules file in a project cloned
with --recurse-submodules (CVE-2018-17456).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23642
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17456

SRPMS:
- 6/core/git-2.13.7-1.2.mga6

Mageia 2018-0395: git security update

joernchen of Phenoelit discovered that git is prone to an arbitrary code execution vulnerability due to insufficient validation of submodule url and path via a specially crafted .g...

Summary

joernchen of Phenoelit discovered that git is prone to an arbitrary code execution vulnerability due to insufficient validation of submodule url and path via a specially crafted .gitmodules file in a project cloned with --recurse-submodules (CVE-2018-17456).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23642

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17456

Resolution

MGASA-2018-0395 - Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 6/core/git-2.13.7-1.2.mga6

Severity
Publication date: 14 Oct 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0395.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-17456

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