Debian DLA-2182-1 : git security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 135939

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Carlo Arenas discovered a flaw in git, a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system. With a crafted URL that contains a newline or empty host, or lacks a scheme, the credential helper machinery can be fooled into providing credential information that is not appropriate for the protocol in use and host being contacted.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u10.

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/2020/04/msg00015.html

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135939

File Name: debian_DLA-2182.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/24/2020

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11008

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-all, 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-mediawiki, 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, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:git-el

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/23/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11008