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git-2.38.1-1.fc36

FEDORA-2022-8b58806840 created by tmz 5 months ago for Fedora 36

Upstream update including security & bug fixes as well as feature enhancements.

From the upstream release notes:

CVE-2022-39253

When relying on the --local clone optimization, Git dereferences symbolic links in the source repository before creating hardlinks (or copies) of the dereferenced link in the destination repository. This can lead to surprising behavior where arbitrary files are present in a repository's $GIT_DIR when cloning from a malicious repository.

Git will no longer dereference symbolic links via the --local clone mechanism, and will instead refuse to clone repositories that have symbolic links present in the $GIT_DIR/objects directory.

Additionally, the value of protocol.file.allow is changed to be "user" by default.

CVE-2022-39260

An overly-long command string given to git shell can result in overflow in split_cmdline(), leading to arbitrary heap writes and remote code execution when git shell is exposed and the directory $HOME/git-shell-commands exists.

git shell is taught to refuse interactive commands that are longer than 4MiB in size. split_cmdline() is hardened to reject inputs larger than 2GiB.

Credits

Credit for finding CVE-2022-39253 goes to Cory Snider of Mirantis. The fix was authored by Taylor Blau, with help from Johannes Schindelin.

Credit for finding CVE-2022-39260 goes to Kevin Backhouse of GitHub. The fix was authored by Kevin Backhouse, Jeff King, and Taylor Blau.

How to install

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2022-8b58806840

This update has been submitted for testing by tmz.

5 months ago

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5 months ago

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This update can be pushed to stable now if the maintainer wishes

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Works.

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no regressions noted

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wfm

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Metadata
Type
security
Severity
medium
Karma
7
Signed
Content Type
RPM
Test Gating
Settings
Unstable by Karma
-3
Stable by Karma
disabled
Stable by Time
14 days
Dates
submitted
5 months ago
in testing
5 months ago
in stable
5 months ago

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