USN-5686-1: Git vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Description

Cory Snider discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain symbolic links. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause an unexpected behaviour. (CVE-2022-39253) Kevin Backhouse discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain command strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2022-39260) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5686-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: git – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 gitweb – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-gui – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-daemon-sysvinit – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-el – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 gitk – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-all – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-mediawiki – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-daemon-run – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-man – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-doc – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-svn – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-cvs – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-email – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 No subscription required

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-39253, CVE-2022-39260.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.329.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 23.0.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

• cflinuxfs3
  • Upgrade all versions to 0.329.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 23.0.0 or greater

History

2022-12-07: Initial vulnerability report published.