USN-4334-1: Git vulnerability
21 April 2020
Git could be made to expose sensitive information.
Releases
Packages
- git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
Details
Carlo Arenas discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain URLs
containing newlines, empty hosts, or lacking a scheme. A remote attacker
could possibly use this issue to trick Git into returning credential
information for a wrong host.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.