USN-6050-2: Git vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

Canonical Ubuntu 16.04

Description

USN-6050-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Git. This update provides the corresponding updates for CVE-2023-25652 and CVE-2023-29007 on Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite paths. (CVE-2023-25652) André Baptista and Vítor Pinho discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain configurations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to achieve arbitrary configuration injection. (CVE-2023-29007) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6050-2` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: git - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 gitweb - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-all - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-daemon-sysvinit - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-arch - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-el - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 gitk - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-gui - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-mediawiki - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-daemon-run - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-man - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-doc - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-svn - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-cvs - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-core - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 git-email - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm7 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-25652, CVE-2023-29007

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

Operations Manager
- 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.58

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:

Operations Manager
- 2.10.58

References

History

2023-06-29: Initial vulnerability report published.