MGASA-2020-0175 - Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 16 Apr 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0175.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-5260

With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential helper
machinery can be fooled to give credential information for a wrong host.
The attack has been made impossible by forbidding a newline character in
any value passed via the credential protocol (CVE-2020-5260).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26483
- https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-qm7j-c969-7j4q
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-5260

SRPMS:
- 7/core/git-2.21.2-1.mga7

Mageia 2020-0175: git security update

With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential helper machinery can be fooled to give credential information for a wrong host

Summary

With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential helper machinery can be fooled to give credential information for a wrong host. The attack has been made impossible by forbidding a newline character in any value passed via the credential protocol (CVE-2020-5260).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26483

- https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-qm7j-c969-7j4q

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-5260

Resolution

MGASA-2020-0175 - Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 7/core/git-2.21.2-1.mga7

Severity
Publication date: 16 Apr 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0175.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-5260

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