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Debian DLA-1068-1 : git security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 102788

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Joern Schneeweisz discovered that git, a distributed revision control system, did not correctly handle maliciously constructed ssh:// URLs.
This allowed an attacker to run an arbitrary shell command, for instance via git submodules.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy5.

We recommend that you upgrade your git packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/08/msg00020.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/git

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 102788

File Name: debian_DLA-1068.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-all, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-arch, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-core, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-cvs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-daemon-sysvinit, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-gui, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-email, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-daemon-run, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-svn, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gitk, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-man, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gitweb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-el

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Malicious Git HTTP Server For CVE-2017-1000117)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000117