[USN-6050-1] Git vulnerabilities

[Leonidas S. Barbosa]

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6050-1
May 01, 2023

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

- Ubuntu 23.04
- Ubuntu 22.10
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Git.

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

Details:

It was discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain commands.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwriting some paths.
(CVE-2023-25652)

Maxime Escourbiac and Yassine BENGANA discovered that Git incorrectly
handled some gettext machinery. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to allows the malicious placement of crafted messages. (CVE-2023-25815)

André Baptista and Vítor Pinho discovered that Git incorrectly handled
certain configurations. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to arbitrary configuration injection. (CVE-2023-29007)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 23.04:
  git                             1:2.39.2-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 22.10:
  git                             1:2.37.2-1ubuntu1.5

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  git                             1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.9

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  git                             1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3.11

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  git                             1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18

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

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6050-1
  CVE-2023-25652, CVE-2023-25815, CVE-2023-29007

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.39.2-1ubuntu1.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.37.2-1ubuntu1.5
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.9
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3.11
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18
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