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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5517

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-5517

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/13/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The web interface in git (gitweb) 1.5.x before 1.5.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters related to (1) git_snapshot and (2) git_object.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-git
  • suse-upgrade-git-arch
  • suse-upgrade-git-core
  • suse-upgrade-git-cvs
  • suse-upgrade-git-email
  • suse-upgrade-git-svn
  • suse-upgrade-gitk

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