The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2004 advisory.

    Git is a distributed revision control system with a decentralized architecture. As opposed to centralized     version control systems with a client-server model, Git ensures that each working copy of a Git repository     is an exact copy with complete revision history. This not only allows the user to work on and contribute     to projects without the need to have permission to push the changes to their official repositories, but     also makes it possible for the user to work with no network connection.

    Security Fix(es):

    * It was found that the git-prompt.sh script shipped with git failed to correctly handle branch names     containing special characters. A specially crafted git repository could use this flaw to execute arbitrary     commands if a user working with the repository configured their shell to include repository information in     the prompt. (CVE-2014-9938)

    * A flaw was found in the way git-shell handled command-line options for the restricted set of git-shell     commands. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to bypass git-shell restrictions, to view     and manipulate files, by abusing the instance of the less command launched using crafted command-line     options. (CVE-2017-8386)

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : git (RHSA-2017:2004)

high Nessus Plugin ID 102110

Version 3.13