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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 000000000000..130645fb292a --- /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. |