USN-4220-1: Git vulnerabilities
git vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 19.04
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in Git.
Software Description
- git – fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Details
Joern Schneeweisz and Nicolas Joly discovered that Git contained various
security flaws. An attacker could possibly use these issues to overwrite
arbitrary paths, execute arbitrary code, and overwrite files in the .git
directory.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 19.10
- git – 1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.10.1
- Ubuntu 19.04
- git – 1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.04.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- git – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.5
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- git – 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.7
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
- CVE-2019-1348
- CVE-2019-1349
- CVE-2019-1350
- CVE-2019-1351
- CVE-2019-1352
- CVE-2019-1353
- CVE-2019-1354
- CVE-2019-1387
- CVE-2019-19604
Source: USN-4220-1: Git vulnerabilities
