USN-5511-1: Git vulnerabilities

Publication date

13 July 2022

Overview

Git could be made to run arbitrary commands as an administrator if it received specially crafted inputs.


Packages

  • git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system

Details

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón discovered that an issue related to CVE-2022-24765
still affected Git. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
run arbitrary commands as administrator. (CVE-2022-29187)

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón discovered that an issue related to CVE-2022-24765
still affected Git. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
run arbitrary commands as administrator. (CVE-2022-29187)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.04 jammy git –  1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.4
21.10 impish git –  1:2.32.0-1ubuntu1.3
20.04 focal git –  1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3.5
18.04 bionic git –  1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.12

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