USN-3387-1: Git vulnerability
11 August 2017
Git could be made run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted git repository.
Releases
Packages
- git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Details
Brian Neel, Joern Schneeweisz, and Jeff King discovered that Git did
not properly handle host names in 'ssh://' URLs. A remote attacker
could use this to construct a git repository that when accessed could
run arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 17.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.