CVE-2021-21300

NameCVE-2021-21300
DescriptionGit is an open-source distributed revision control system. In affected versions of Git a specially crafted repository that contains symbolic links as well as files using a clean/smudge filter such as Git LFS, may cause just-checked out script to be executed while cloning onto a case-insensitive file system such as NTFS, HFS+ or APFS (i.e. the default file systems on Windows and macOS). Note that clean/smudge filters have to be configured for that. Git for Windows configures Git LFS by default, and is therefore vulnerable. The problem has been patched in the versions published on Tuesday, March 9th, 2021. As a workaound, if symbolic link support is disabled in Git (e.g. via `git config --global core.symlinks false`), the described attack won't work. Likewise, if no clean/smudge filters such as Git LFS are configured globally (i.e. _before_ cloning), the attack is foiled. As always, it is best to avoid cloning repositories from untrusted sources. The earliest impacted version is 2.14.2. The fix versions are: 2.30.1, 2.29.3, 2.28.1, 2.27.1, 2.26.3, 2.25.5, 2.24.4, 2.23.4, 2.22.5, 2.21.4, 2.20.5, 2.19.6, 2.18.5, 2.17.62.17.6.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3145-1
Debian Bugs985120

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
git (PTS)bullseye1:2.30.2-1+deb11u2fixed
bullseye (security)1:2.30.2-1+deb11u3fixed
bookworm1:2.39.2-1.1fixed
bookworm (security)1:2.39.5-0+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie1:2.45.2-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
gitsourcebuster1:2.20.1-2+deb10u4DLA-3145-1
gitsource(unstable)1:2.30.2-1985120

Notes

[stretch] - git <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqim6019yd.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/
Fixed by: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?h=v2.30.2&id=684dd4c2b414bcf648505e74498a608f28de4592

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