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openSUSE Leap 42.3 Security Update 2018:3519-1 Moderate: libgit2 DoS

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Patch release for libgit2 on openSUSE Leap 42.3 resolving multiple vulnerabilities. Discover more details here.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for libgit2 fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2018-8099: Fixed possible denial of service attack via different

vectors by not being able to differentiate between these status codes

(bsc#1085256).

- CVE-2018-11235: With a crafted .gitmodules file, a malicious project can

execute an arbitrary script on a machine that runs "git clone

--recurse-submodules" because submodule "names" are obtained from this

file, and then appended to $GIT_DIR/modules, leading to directory

traversal with "../" in a name. Finally, post-checkout hooks from a

submodule are executed, bypassing the intended design in which hooks are

not obtained from a remote server. (bsc#1095219)

- CVE-2018-10887: It has been discovered that an unexpected sign extension

in git_delta_apply function in delta.c file may have lead to an integer

overflow which in turn leads to an out of bound read, allowing to read

before the base object. An attacker...

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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-2018-1314=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

libgit2-24-0.24.1-10.3.1

libgit2-24-debuginfo-0.24.1-10.3.1

libgit2-debugsource-0.24.1-10.3.1

libgit2-devel-0.24.1-10.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libgit2-24-32bit-0.24.1-10.3.1

libgit2-24-debuginfo-32bit-0.24.1-10.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10887.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10888.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11235.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15501.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8099.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1085256

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1095219

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1100612

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1100613

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1104641

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3519-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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