USN-5871-1: Git vulnerabilities

24188

22 May 2023

22 May 2023

CLOSED

MEDIUM

CVE-2023-22490,CVE-2023-23946

Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

It was discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain repositories. An attacker could use this issue to make Git uses its local clone optimization even when using a non-local transport. (CVE-2023-22490) Joern Schneeweisz discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite a patch outside the working tree. (CVE-2023-23946) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5871-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: git - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 gitweb - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-gui - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-daemon-sysvinit - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-arch - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-el - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 gitk - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-all - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-mediawiki - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-daemon-run - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-man - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-doc - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-svn - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-cvs - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-core - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 git-email - 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm5 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-22490, CVE-2023-23946

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • Platform Automation Toolkit
    • 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.31
    • 5.0.x versions prior to 5.0.24
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.29
    • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.19
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.14
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.7
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.54
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.35
    • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.24
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.17
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.7

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:
  • Platform Automation Toolkit
    • 4.4.31
    • 5.0.24
    • 5.1.0
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.11.29
    • 2.12.19
    • 2.13.14
    • 3.0.7
    • 4.0.0+LTS-T
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.54
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.35
    • 2.12.24
    • 2.13.17
    • 3.0.7
    • 4.0.0+LTS-T

References

History

2023-05-22: Initial vulnerability report published.