USN-4329-1: Git vulnerability
14 April 2020
Git could be made to expose sensitive information.
Releases
Packages
- git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Details
Felix Wilhelm discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain URLs that
included newlines. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to trick
Git into returning credential information for a wrong host.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.