Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-842
Advisory Release Date: 2017-06-06 17:07 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2017-06-06 22:51 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Escape out of git-shell
A flaw was found in the way git-shell handled command-line options for the restricted set of git-shell commands. A remote authenticated attacker could use this flaw to bypass git-shell restrictions, to view and manipulate files, by abusing the instance of the less command launched using crafted command-line options. (CVE-2017-8386)
Affected Packages:
git
Issue Correction:
Run yum update git to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
git-daemon-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.i686
git-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.i686
git-svn-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.i686
git-debuginfo-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.i686
noarch:
perl-Git-SVN-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch
git-cvs-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch
perl-Git-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch
git-all-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch
git-p4-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch
gitweb-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch
emacs-git-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch
git-hg-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch
emacs-git-el-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch
git-email-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch
git-bzr-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.noarch
src:
git-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.src
x86_64:
git-svn-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.x86_64
git-debuginfo-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.x86_64
git-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.x86_64
git-daemon-2.7.5-1.49.amzn1.x86_64