Medium: git

Issue Overview:

Escape out of git-shell
A flaw was found in the way git-shell handled command-line options for the restricted set of git-shell commands. A remote authenticated attacker could use this flaw to bypass git-shell restrictions, to view and manipulate files, by abusing the instance of the less command launched using crafted command-line options. (CVE-2017-8386)

Affected Packages:

git

Issue Correction:
Run yum update git to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    git-daemon-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.i686  
    git-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.i686  
    git-svn-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.i686  
    git-debuginfo-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    perl-Git-SVN-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch  
    git-cvs-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch  
    perl-Git-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch  
    git-all-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch  
    git-p4-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch  
    gitweb-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch  
    emacs-git-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch  
    git-hg-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch  
    emacs-git-el-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch  
    git-email-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch  
    git-bzr-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    git-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    git-svn-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.x86_64  
    git-debuginfo-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.x86_64  
    git-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.x86_64  
    git-daemon-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2017-8386

Mitre: CVE-2017-8386