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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3435-1 git -- security update

Date Reported:

05 Jan 2016

Affected Packages:

git

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-7545.

More information:

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 arbitary code by injecting commands via crafted URLs.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.6.1-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.6.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your git packages.