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Git 2.38.1 and others for CVE-2022-39253, and CVE-2022-39260
From: Taylor Blau <me () ttaylorr com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:25:09 -0400
The Git project released new versions on 2022-10-18, addressing CVEs 2022-39253, 2022-39260. We highly recommend upgrading to one of the fixed versions below: v2.30.6 v2.31.5 v2.32.4 v2.33.5 v2.34.5 v2.35.5 v2.36.3 v2.37.4 v2.38.1 If you are on the unreleased development track, the same fix is already included, so you do not have to do anything. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq4jw1uku5.fsf@gitster.g/T/#u The relevant information from the most recent release notes pertaining to the above two CVEs are as follows: 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. 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. Thanks, Taylor
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