From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751215AbdEJAi2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2017 20:38:28 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f195.google.com ([209.85.192.195]:35721 "EHLO mail-pf0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750780AbdEJAi1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2017 20:38:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 17:38:23 -0700 From: Jonathan Nieder To: Junio C Hamano Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Timo Schmid Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.12.3 and others Message-ID: <20170510003823.GT28740@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano wrote: > Maintenance releases Git v2.4.12, v2.5.6, v2.6.7, v2.7.5, v2.8.5, > v2.9.4, v2.10.3, v2.11.2, and v2.12.3 have been tagged and are now > available at the usual places. > > These are primarily to fix a recently disclosed problem with "git > shell", which may allow a user who comes over SSH to run an > interactive pager by causing it to spawn "git upload-pack --help" > (CVE-2017-8386). Some (like v2.12.3) have other fixes that have > been accumulating included as well. > > "git-shell" is a restricted login shell that can be used on a server > to prevent SSH clients from running any programs except those needed > for git fetches and pushes. If you are not running a server, or if > your server has not been explicitly configured to use git-shell as a > login shell, you are not affected. Also note that sites running "git > shell" behind gitolite are NOT vulnerable. Thanks. Credit for discovering this bug goes to Timo Schmid, ERNW GmbH. They will probably have a blog post soon with more details. 1.6.1 is the earliest git version affected (so this goes back pretty far). > The tarballs are found at: > > https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ > > The following public repositories all have a copy of these tags: > > url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git > url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git > url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git > url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core > url = https://github.com/gitster/git Sincerely, Jonathan