Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2017-910
Advisory Release Date: 2017-10-12 19:39 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-12-15 17:45 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
Git before 2.10.5, 2.11.x before 2.11.4, 2.12.x before 2.12.5, 2.13.x before 2.13.6, and 2.14.x before 2.14.2 uses unsafe Perl scripts to support subcommands such as cvsserver, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in a module name. The vulnerable code is reachable via git-shell even without CVS support. (CVE-2017-14867)
Affected Packages:
git
Issue Correction:
Run yum update git to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
git-svn-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.i686
git-daemon-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.i686
git-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.i686
git-debuginfo-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.i686
noarch:
git-all-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.noarch
git-p4-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.noarch
emacs-git-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.noarch
git-email-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.noarch
gitweb-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.noarch
git-hg-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.noarch
git-bzr-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.noarch
perl-Git-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.noarch
emacs-git-el-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.noarch
git-cvs-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.noarch
perl-Git-SVN-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.noarch
src:
git-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.src
x86_64:
git-debuginfo-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.x86_64
git-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.x86_64
git-svn-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.x86_64
git-daemon-2.13.6-1.55.amzn1.x86_64