Advisories » MGASA-2021-0137

Updated git packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 14 Mar 2021
Modification date: 14 Mar 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8
CVE: CVE-2021-21300

Description

On case-insensitive file systems with support for symbolic links, if Git is
configured globally to apply delay-capable clean/smudge filters (such as Git
LFS), Git could be fooled into running remote code during a clone
(CVE-2021-21300).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28566
• https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/3/9/995
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21300

SRPMS

7/core

• git-2.21.4-1.mga7

8/core

• git-2.30.2-1.mga8