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openSUSE Leap 15.0 Update openSUSE-SU-2018:2308-1 Moderate cgit Issue

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Calendar Grey August 13, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Patch resolves significant vulnerability in openSUSE cgit, swiftly managing directory traversal threats effectively.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for cgit fixes the following issues:

The following security vulnerability was addressed:

- CVE-2018-14912: Fixed a directory traversal vulnerability, when

enable-http-clone=1 is not turned off (boo#1103799)

The following other changes were made:

- Update to upstream release 1.2.1

* syntax-highlighting: replace invalid unicode with '?'

* ui-repolist: properly sort by age

* ui-patch: fix crash when using path limit

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-863=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

cgit-1.2.1-lp150.2.3.1

cgit-debuginfo-1.2.1-lp150.2.3.1

cgit-debugsource-1.2.1-lp150.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14912.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1103799

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2308-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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