Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1068-1 git -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 27 Aug 2017
- Affected Packages:
- git
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-1000117.
- More information:
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Joern Schneeweisz discovered that git, a distributed revision control system, did not correctly handle maliciously constructed ssh:// URLs. This allowed an attacker to run an arbitrary shell command, for instance via git submodules.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy5.We recommend that you upgrade your git packages.
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