Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2020-1409
Advisory Release Date: 2020-04-13 22:34 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2020-04-15 15:12 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
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)
Affected Packages:
git
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update git to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
git-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
git-core-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
git-daemon-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
git-subtree-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
git-debuginfo-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
i686:
git-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
git-core-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
git-daemon-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
git-subtree-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
git-debuginfo-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
noarch:
git-all-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
git-core-doc-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
git-cvs-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
git-email-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
gitk-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
gitweb-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
git-gui-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
git-instaweb-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
git-p4-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
perl-Git-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
perl-Git-SVN-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
git-svn-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch
src:
git-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.src
x86_64:
git-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
git-core-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
git-daemon-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
git-subtree-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
git-debuginfo-2.23.1-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64