Slackware: 2024-136-02: git Security Advisory Update
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/git-2.39.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes security issues: Recursive clones on case-insensitive filesystems that support symbolic links are susceptible to case confusion that can be exploited to execute just-cloned code during the clone operation. Repositories can be configured to execute arbitrary code during local clones. To address this, the ownership checks introduced in v2.30.3 are now extended to cover cloning local repositories. Local clones may end up hardlinking files into the target repository's object database when source and target repository reside on the same disk. If the source repository is owned by a different user, then those hardlinked files may be rewritten at any point in time by the untrusted user. When cloning a local source repository that contains symlinks via the filesystem, Git may create hardlinks to arbitrary user-readable files on t...
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Updated package for Slackware 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 15.0 package:
837b659cb32a07eed09bf4de30b72741 git-2.39.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package:
530b3158ef258881e1a340baff5d61b5 git-2.39.4-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package:
0f6950f7d7f336e7aa2d47d4a4711bc9 d/git-2.45.1-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
685fddae35e6b5d4366104f1c05ccd43 d/git-2.45.1-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg git-2.39.4-i586-1_slack15.0.txz