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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-19486: Security patch for git (ALAS-2018-1136)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 23, 2018
Added
Dec 21, 2018
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-git
Title
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