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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4010-1 git-annex -- security update

Date Reported:

30 Oct 2017

Affected Packages:

git-annex

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 873088.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-12976.

More information:

It was discovered that git-annex, a tool to manage files with git without checking their contents in, did not correctly handle maliciously constructed ssh:// URLs. This allowed an attacker to run an arbitrary shell command.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 5.20141125+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.20170101-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your git-annex packages.