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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-09-27 11:20:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-09-27 11:20:22 -0700 |
| commit | 902df9f5c45cd99720d4ca0a38d0538eb0126ad7 (patch) | |
| tree | 31508ce7526984307a09f9e114a2989f668c060e /Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt | |
| parent | Git 2.15.2 (diff) | |
| parent | Git 2.14.5 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-902df9f5c45cd99720d4ca0a38d0538eb0126ad7.tar.xz | |
Sync with Git 2.14.4
* maint-2.14:
Git 2.14.5
submodule-config: ban submodule paths that start with a dash
submodule-config: ban submodule urls that start with dash
submodule--helper: use "--" to signal end of clone options
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..130645fb29 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Git v2.14.5 Release Notes +========================= + +This release is to address the recently reported CVE-2018-17456. + +Fixes since v2.14.4 +------------------- + + * Submodules' "URL"s come from the untrusted .gitmodules file, but + we blindly gave it to "git clone" to clone submodules when "git + clone --recurse-submodules" was used to clone a project that has + such a submodule. The code has been hardened to reject such + malformed URLs (e.g. one that begins with a dash). + +Credit for finding and fixing this vulnerability goes to joernchen +and Jeff King, respectively. |