ALAS-2018-1136


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1136
Advisory Release Date: 2018-12-20 00:03 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-12-20 23:28 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.(CVE-2018-19486)


Affected Packages:

git


Issue Correction:
Run yum update git to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    git-debuginfo-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.i686
    git-daemon-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.i686
    git-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.i686
    git-svn-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    git-all-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch
    git-cvs-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch
    perl-Git-SVN-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch
    gitweb-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch
    perl-Git-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch
    git-email-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch
    git-hg-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch
    git-bzr-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch
    emacs-git-el-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch
    git-p4-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch
    emacs-git-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch

src:
    git-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    git-daemon-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.x86_64
    git-svn-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.x86_64
    git-debuginfo-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.x86_64
    git-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.x86_64