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Debian: DSA-3984: git -- security update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 26, 2017
Added
Sep 27, 2017
Modified
Feb 19, 2025

Description

joernchen discovered that the git-cvsserver subcommand of Git, a


distributed version control system, suffers from a shell command


injection vulnerability due to unsafe use of the Perl backtick


operator. The git-cvsserver subcommand is reachable from the


git-shell subcommand even if CVS support has not been configured


(however, the git-cvs package needs to be installed).

Solution

debian-upgrade-git

References

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