USN-5376-1: Git vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 21.10
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM

Packages

• git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system

Details

俞晨东 discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain repository paths
in platforms with multiple users support. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to run arbitrary commands.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.10

• git - 1:2.32.0-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 20.04

• git - 1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3.3

Ubuntu 18.04

• git - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.10

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

References

• CVE-2022-24765

Related notices

• USN-5376-2: git-doc, git-gui, git-cvs, git-daemon-run, git-daemon-sysvinit, git-man, git-email, git-mediawiki, gitweb, git-svn, git, git-all, gitk