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Mageia 8 MGASA-2022-0396 Moderate: Git Symbolic Link & Heap Threats

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia addresses vulnerabilities in git related to symbolic link exploitation and heap overflow issues, with a fix released on October 28, 2022.
CVE-2022-39253: A malicious actor could convince a victim to clone a repository with a symbolic link pointing at sensitive information on the victim's machine

Summary

CVE-2022-39253: A malicious actor could convince a victim to clone a repository with a symbolic link pointing at sensitive information on the victim's machine. CVE-2022-39260: Allowing a malicious actor to intentionally overflow the return value, leading to arbitrary heap writes. CVE-2022-29187: privilege escalation

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30985

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39253

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39260

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29187

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/git-2.30.6-1.mga8

Publication date: 28 Oct 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0396.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-39253, CVE-2022-39260, CVE-2022-29187

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