Mageia 6: MGASA-2019-0199 Critical: Git Command Execution Risk
mageia
June 20, 2019
Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and r...
Summary
Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current
working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases
involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a
dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017 (CVE-2018-19486).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24058
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19486
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/git-2.13.7-1.3.mga6
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Publication date: 21 Jun 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0199.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-19486
Topics Covered
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