{"thread":{"id":"53262","subject":"[Announce] Git v2.26.2 and others","startedAt":"2020-04-20T18:03:04Z","lastAt":"2020-04-20T18:03:04Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"395751","messageId":"xmqq4kterq5s.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com","threadId":"53262","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[Announce] Git v2.26.2 and others","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2020-04-20T18:02:55Z","receivedAt":"2020-04-20T18:03:04Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Today, the Git project is releasing the following Git versions:\n\n    v2.26.2, v2.25.4, v2.24.3, v2.23.3, v2.22.4, v2.21.3, v2.20.4,\n    v2.19.5, v2.18.4, and v2.17.5.\n\nThese releases address the security issue CVE-2020-11008, which is\nsimilar to the recently addressed CVE-2020-5260.\n\nUsers of the affected maintenance tracks are urged to upgrade.\n\nThe tarballs are found at:\n\n    https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/\n\nThe following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.26.2'\nand other tags:\n\n  url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git\n  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git\n  url = https://github.com/gitster/git\n\nAttached below is the release notes for 2.17.5; all the newer\nmaintenance tracks listed at the beginning of this message are\nupdated with the same fix, so I won't repeat them here.\n\nThanks.\n\n--------------------------------------------------\nGit v2.17.5 Release Notes\n=========================\n\nThis release is to address a security issue: CVE-2020-11008\n\nFixes since v2.17.4\n-------------------\n\n * With a crafted URL that contains a newline or empty host, or lacks\n   a scheme, the credential helper machinery can be fooled into\n   providing credential information that is not appropriate for the\n   protocol in use and host being contacted.\n\n   Unlike the vulnerability CVE-2020-5260 fixed in v2.17.4, the\n   credentials are not for a host of the attacker's choosing; instead,\n   they are for some unspecified host (based on how the configured\n   credential helper handles an absent \"host\" parameter).\n\n   The attack has been made impossible by refusing to work with\n   under-specified credential patterns.\n\nCredit for finding the vulnerability goes to Carlo Arenas.\n"}]}