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Ubuntu: USN-4220-1 (CVE-2019-1387): Git vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4220-1 (CVE-2019-1387): Git vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/10/2019
Created
12/13/2019
Added
12/11/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

An issue was found in Git before v2.24.1, v2.23.1, v2.22.2, v2.21.1, v2.20.2, v2.19.3, v2.18.2, v2.17.3, v2.16.6, v2.15.4, and v2.14.6. Recursive clones are currently affected by a vulnerability that is caused by too-lax validation of submodule names, allowing very targeted attacks via remote code execution in recursive clones.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-git

References

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