USN-3243-1: Git vulnerability
Severity
Medium
Vendor
Canonical Ubuntu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 14.04
Description
It was discovered that Git incorrectly sanitized branch names in the PS1 variable when configured to display the repository status in the shell prompt. If a user were tricked into exploring a malicious repository, a remote attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
- All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to 1.111.0
Mitigation
OSS users are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 versions 1.111.0 or later.