Multiple CVE's - Git & Git for Windows


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Apologies for the radio silence recently. Had some terrible family news over Christmas and New Year. 

Anyway, the following have been published regarding Git and rated has Critical:

The last CVE is still to be patched and affects Git for Windows. As a workaround, do not use the GUI from clone a repository, especially from untrusted sources.

Therefore, malicious repositories can ship with an aspell.exe in their top-level directory which is executed by Git GUI without giving the user a chance to inspect it first, i.e. running untrusted code.


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Sorry to hear about your news hope all is well now.  Thanks for sharing these latest updates.

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Sorry to read that @dips

A giant hug from Italy.

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Talking about that, there’s a full analysis here: https://github.blog/2023-01-17-git-security-vulnerabilities-announced-2/

And here to check about last update: https://about.gitlab.com/update/

Note: GitLab releases have skipped 15.7.4, 15.6.5, and 15.5.8.

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Sorry to hear that as well Dips. Stay Strong!

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Sorry to hear this @dips. All the best.

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Sorry to hear this @dips. Stay strong!

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Sorry to hear .. hope all good now !

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Sorry to hear that, @dips ! :( Hope you are well! 

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Thanks everyone! Getting there :)

Hope you all have a good weekend!

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Thx for sharing @dips and good luck with your unfortunate news...🤞

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