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HistoryOct 06, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

USN-3438-1: Git vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

2017-10-0600:00:00
Cloud Foundry
www.cloudfoundry.org
25

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

70.4%

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 14.04

Description

It was discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain subcommands such as cvsserver. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue via shell metacharacters in modules names to execute arbitrary code.

This update also removes the cvsserver subcommand from git-shell by default.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to 1.159.0

Mitigation

OSS users are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 version 1.159.0 or later.

References