Per the upstream release announcement¹, this release fixes ‘various security flaws, which allowed an attacker to overwrite arbitrary paths, remotely execute code, and/or overwrite files in the .git/ directory etc. See the release notes attached for the list for their descriptions and CVE identifiers.’
Refer to the 2.14.6 release notes² for details on these vulnerabilities and the 2.24.0 release notes³ for details on other improvements and fixes since 2.23.0.
¹
https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected] / ²
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/2.14.6.txt ³
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2019-c841bcc3b9.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(132119);
script_version("1.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/04/04");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2019-1348",
"CVE-2019-1349",
"CVE-2019-1350",
"CVE-2019-1351",
"CVE-2019-1352",
"CVE-2019-1353",
"CVE-2019-1354",
"CVE-2019-1387",
"CVE-2019-19604"
);
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2019-c841bcc3b9");
script_name(english:"Fedora 31 : git (2019-c841bcc3b9)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Per the upstream release announcement¹, this release fixes
'various security flaws, which allowed an attacker to overwrite
arbitrary paths, remotely execute code, and/or overwrite files in the
.git/ directory etc. See the release notes attached for the list for
their descriptions and CVE identifiers.'
Refer to the 2.14.6 release notes² for details on these
vulnerabilities and the 2.24.0 release notes³ for details on
other improvements and fixes since 2.23.0.
¹
https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]
/ ²
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/2.14.6.txt
³
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as
possible without introducing additional issues.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-c841bcc3b9");
# https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?d05d9ca8");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/2.14.6.txt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected git package.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-19604");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-1353");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/12/11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/12/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/12/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:git");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^31([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 31", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC31", reference:"git-2.24.1-1.fc31")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "git");
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
fedoraproject | fedora | git | p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:git |
fedoraproject | fedora | 31 | cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1348
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1349
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1350
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1351
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1352
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1353
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1354
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1387
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-19604
www.nessus.org/u?d05d9ca8
bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-c841bcc3b9
www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes/2.14.6.txt