N/A - USN-4220-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	Git vulnerabilities

Informations
Name	USN-4220-1	First vendor Publication	2019-12-10
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2019-12-10
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
Cvss Expoit Score	N/A	Authentication	N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.10 - Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Git.

Software Description: - git: fast, scalable, distributed revision control system

Details:

Joern Schneeweisz and Nicolas Joly discovered that Git contained various security flaws. An attacker could possibly use these issues to overwrite arbitrary paths, execute arbitrary code, and overwrite files in the .git directory.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10:
git 1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.10.1

Ubuntu 19.04:
git 1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
git 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.5

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
git 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.7

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4220-1
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

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.5
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.7