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openSUSE Leap 15.6: 2025:0116-1 important: git credential issues

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Calendar Grey January 15, 2025
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Recent enhancements in git have addressed several vulnerabilities impacting various SUSE offerings, promoting more secure development methodologies.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for git fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2024-50349: Passwords for trusted sites could be sent to untrusted sites

(bsc#1235600).

* CVE-2024-52006: Carriage Returns via the credential protocol to credential

helpers (bsc#1235601).

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-116=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-116=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-116=1

* Development Tools Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP6-2025-116=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* perl-Git-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* gitk-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-daemon-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-credential-libsecret-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-credential-libsecret-debuginfo-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-core-debuginfo-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-email-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-debuginfo-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-web-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-gui-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-arch-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-p4-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-cvs-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-core-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-daemon-debuginfo-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-svn-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-debugsource-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)

* git-doc-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* git-core-debuginfo-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-core-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-debuginfo-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* git-debugsource-2.43.0-150600.3.9.1

* Development Tools Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* bsc#1235600

* bsc#1235601

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50349.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-52006.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235600

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235601

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0116-1
Release Date: 2025-01-15T08:32:46Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * Development Tools Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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