[USN-5511-1] Git vulnerabilities

[Leonidas S. Barbosa]

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5511-1
July 13, 2022

git vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 21.10
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary:

Git could be made to run arbitrary commands as an administrator
if it received specially crafted inputs.

Software Description:
- git: fast, scalable, distributed revision control system

Details:

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón discovered that an issue related to CVE-2022-24765
still affected Git. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
run arbitrary commands as administrator. (CVE-2022-29187)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  git                             1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 21.10:
  git                             1:2.32.0-1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  git                             1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3.5

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  git                             1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.12

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5511-1
  CVE-2022-29187

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.4
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.32.0-1ubuntu1.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3.5
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.12
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