CVE-2017-8386

NameCVE-2017-8386
Descriptiongit-shell in git before 2.4.12, 2.5.x before 2.5.6, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.8.x before 2.8.5, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, 2.10.x before 2.10.3, 2.11.x before 2.11.2, and 2.12.x before 2.12.3 might allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a repository name that starts with a - (dash) character.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-938-1, DSA-3848-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
git (PTS)buster1:2.20.1-2+deb10u3fixed
buster (security)1:2.20.1-2+deb10u8fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye1:2.30.2-1+deb11u2fixed
bookworm1:2.39.2-1.1fixed
sid, trixie1:2.43.0-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
gitsourcewheezy1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy4DLA-938-1
gitsourcejessie1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u3DSA-3848-1
gitsource(unstable)1:2.11.0-3

Notes

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1705.1/01337.html
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1705.1/01346.html
https://insinuator.net/2017/05/git-shell-bypass-by-abusing-less-cve-2017-8386/
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=3ec804490a265f4c418a321428c12f3f18b7eff5

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