RHSA-2017:2004MediumCVSS 7.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: git security and bug fix update

Published
August 1, 2017
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

📋 Description

CVE-2014-9938 — git: git-prompt.sh does not sanitize branch names in $PS1 CVE-2017-8386 — git: Escape out of git-shell

🎯 Affected products100

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • emacs-git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • emacs-git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • emacs-git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • emacs-git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • emacs-git-el-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • emacs-git-el-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • emacs-git-el-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • emacs-git-el-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.aarch64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • git-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • git-all-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • git-all-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • git-all-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • git-all-0:1.8.3.1-11.el7.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (7)