From d0832b2847aa9669c09397c5639d7fe56abaf9fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:19:11 -0700 Subject: Git 2.14.5 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt (limited to 'Documentation') 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. -- cgit v1.3