Fedora 10 : git-1.6.0.6-1.fc10 (2008-11678)

high Nessus Plugin ID 36570

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a local privilege escalation bug in gitweb. For details:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103624 There are also a number of bugs fixed upstream. For details, see the upstream release notes:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.6.0.6.txt Gitk has been added as a requirement of git-gui (bug 476308) Update to 1.6.0.5 to pick up a number of smaller bugfixes from upstream

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected git package.

See Also

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/103624

http://www.nessus.org/u?d08e2d29

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477523

http://www.nessus.org/u?adb2dd69

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 36570

File Name: fedora_2008-11678.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:git, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/21/2008

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2008-11678