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openSUSE: 2018:3035-1 Moderate: Gitolite Access Control Issue

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
New gitolite version released for openSUSE to tackle security vulnerabilities with moderate risks. Key updates implemented.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for gitolite fixes the following issues:

Gitolite was updated to 3.6.9:

- CVE-2018-16976: prevent racy access to repos in process of migration to

gitolite (boo#1108272)

- 'info' learns new '-p' option to show only physical repos (as opposed to

wild repos)

The update to 3.6.8 contains:

- fix bug when deleting *all* hooks for a repo

- allow trailing slashes in repo names

- make pre-receive hook driver bail on non-zero exit of a pre-receive hook

- allow templates in gitolite.conf (new feature)

- various optimiations

The update to 3.6.7 contains:

- allow repo-specific hooks to be organised into subdirectories, and allow

the multi-hook driver to be placed in some other location of your choice

- allow simple test code to be embedded within the gitolite.conf file; see

contrib/utils/testconf for how. (This goes on the client side, not on

the server)

- allow syslog "facility" to be changed, from the default...

Read the Full Advisory

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 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1118=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1118=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1118=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

gitolite-3.6.9-4.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

gitolite-3.6.9-lp150.2.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (noarch):

gitolite-3.6.9-bp150.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16976.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108272

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3035-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0 openSUSE Backports SLE-15

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