USN-5686-1: Git vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

Cory Snider discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain symbolic links. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause an unexpected behaviour. (CVE-2022-39253) Kevin Backhouse discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain command strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2022-39260) Update Instructions: Run sudo pro fix USN-5686-1 to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: git – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 gitweb – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-gui – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-daemon-sysvinit – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-el – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 gitk – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-all – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-mediawiki – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-daemon-run – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-man – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-doc – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-svn – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-cvs – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 git-email – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.13 No subscription required

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-39253, CVE-2022-39260.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.329.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 23.0.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

• cflinuxfs3
  • Upgrade all versions to 0.329.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 23.0.0 or greater

References

• USN Notice
• CVE-2022-39253
• CVE-2022-39260

History

2022-12-07: Initial vulnerability report published.