Debian Long Term Support / LTS Security Information / 2017 / Security Information -- DLA-1120-1 git

Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1120-1 git -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

02 Oct 2017

Affected Packages:

git

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 876854.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-14867.

More information:

joernchen discovered that the git-cvsserver subcommand of Git, a distributed version control system, suffers from a shell command injection vulnerability due to unsafe use of the Perl backtick operator. The git-cvsserver subcommand is reachable from the git-shell subcommand even if CVS support has not been configured (however, the git-cvs package needs to be installed).

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy6.

We recommend that you upgrade your git packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS