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USN-2835-1 git vulnerability

USN-2835-1 git vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Vendor

git

Versions Affected

  • Ubuntu 14.04

Description

Blake Burkhart discovered that the Git git-remote-ext helper incorrectly handled recursive clones of git repositories. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code by injecting commands via crafted URLs.

The Cloud Foundry project released a new Cloud Foundry rootfs, cflinuxfs2 v.1.23.0, that has the patches.

Affected Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.23.0.

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v.1.23.0 or later versions.

Credit

Blake Burkhart

References

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