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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3848-1 git -- security update

Date Reported:

10 May 2017

Affected Packages:

git

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-8386.

More information:

Timo Schmid of ERNW GmbH discovered that the Git git-shell, a restricted login shell for Git-only SSH access, allows a user to run an interactive pager by causing it to spawn "git upload-pack --help".

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.11.0-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your git packages.