Advisories ยป MGASA-2019-0199

Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Jun 2019
Modification date: 21 Jun 2019
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2018-19486

Description

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).
                

References

SRPMS

6/core