Mageia 6 MGASA-2018-0395 Critical: Git Code Execution Threat
mageia
October 14, 2018
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://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17456
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/git-2.13.7-1.2.mga6
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Publication date: 14 Oct 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0395.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-17456
Topics Covered
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