Secure testing team - Jul 2010 - Bug#590026: git-core: upstream fix for exploitable buffer overrun (CVE-2010-2542)

Package: git-core
Version: 1:1.7.1-1~bpo50+1
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch
Justification: user security hole


A fix for an exploitable buffer overrun (CVE-2010-2542, per [1]) was
committed to git in [2].  In particular, if an attacker were to create
a crafted working copy where the user runs any git command, the
attacker could force execution of arbitrary code.

This attack should be mitigated to a denial of service if git is
compiled with appropriate stack-protecting flags.

This buffer overrun was introduced in [3], which first appeared in
v1.5.6, and is fixed in v1.7.2.

Greg

[1] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2010/q3/93
[2]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=3c9d0414ed2db0167e6c828b547be8fc9f88fccc
[3]
http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commit;h=b44ebb19e3234c5dffe9869ceac5408bb44c2e20

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, ''stable'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages git-core depends on:
ii  git                    1:1.7.1-1~bpo50+1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi

git-core recommends no packages.

git-core suggests no packages.

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