From 1b593e1ea4d2af0f6444d9a7788d5d99abd6fde5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Ambo Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 23:36:56 +0000 Subject: Squashed 'third_party/git/' content from commit cb71568594 git-subtree-dir: third_party/git git-subtree-split: cb715685942260375e1eb8153b0768a376e4ece7 --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt') 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. -- cgit 1.4.1