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Google: dev-vcs/git: security update to 17162.463.8

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 452378

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Git is distributed revision control system. gitattributes are a mechanism to allow defining attributes for
 paths. These attributes can be defined by adding a `.gitattributes` file to the repository, which contains
 a set of file patterns and the attributes that should be set for paths matching this pattern. When parsing
 gitattributes, multiple integer overflows can occur when there is a huge number of path patterns, a huge
 number of attributes for a single pattern, or when the declared attribute names are huge. These overflows
 can be triggered via a crafted `.gitattributes` file that may be part of the commit history. Git silently
 splits lines longer than 2KB when parsing gitattributes from a file, but not when parsing them from the
 index. Consequentially, the failure mode depends on whether the file exists in the working tree, the index
 or both. This integer overflow can result in arbitrary heap reads and writes, which may result in remote
 code execution. The problem has been patched in the versions published on 2023-01-17, going back to
 v2.30.7. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue. (CVE-2022-23521)

Solution

Update the dev-vcs/git library and its related packages to version 17162.463.8 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-101.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 452378

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: HIGH

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-23521

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23521