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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1533-1 git -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

05 Oct 2018

Affected Packages:

git

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-17456.

More information:

joernchen of Phenoelit discovered that git, a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system, is prone to an arbitrary code execution vulnerability via a specially crafted .gitmodules file in a project cloned with --recurse-submodules.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your git packages.

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