Slackware: 2020-105-01 Critical: Git Credential Issue Fix
slackware
April 14, 2020
New git packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/git-2.17.4-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential helper machinery can be fooled to give credential information for a wrong host. The attack has been made impossible by forbidding a newline character in any value passed via the credential protocol. Credit for finding the vulnerability goes to Felix Wilhelm of Google Project Zero. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5260 (* Security fix *)
Where Find New Packages
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.0 package:
d4df6c5651885a0c54c9060b809f7933 git-2.17.4-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
153d1609e59015641a77e872bc6bf192 git-2.17.4-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
c446d4c48b7c2184bb923496f135a53b git-2.17.4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
22d67ae1bcb09089799d02bf08106d5b git-2.17.4-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
5eb04182f95e73ff27bdef3d2aa29afb git-2.17.4-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
44dffc40138f48c49f6e1c7dc07eb3cf git-2.17.4-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
32c297677f194cfe5ee513ba4618a661 d/git-2.26.1-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
d911b45dfe08bc8ff139d4c10ee1618e d/git-2.26.1-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg git-2.17.4-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
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