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An attacker could execute arbitrary commands via Git repositories in a case-insensitive or case-normalizing filesystem.
| Package | dev-vcs/git on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 2.0.5 |
| Unaffected versions | revision >= 1.8.5.6 revision >= 1.9.5 >= 2.0.5 |
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
A vulnerability in Git causing Git-compatible clients that access case-insensitive or case-normalizing filesystems to overwrite the .git/config when cloning or checking out a repository, leading to execution of arbitrary commands.
An attacker can execute arbitrary commands on a client machine that clones a crafted malicious Git tree.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Git 1.8.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/git-1.8.5.6"
All Git 1.9.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/git-1.9.5"
All Git 2.0.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-vcs/git-2.0.5"
Release date
September 24, 2015
Latest revision
September 24, 2015: 1
Severity
normal
Exploitable
remote
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