SB2014121905 - Fedora 21 update for eclipse-egit, eclipse-jgit

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SB2014121905 - Fedora 21 update for eclipse-egit, eclipse-jgit

Published: December 19, 2014 Updated: April 24, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2014121905
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9390)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; mine; libgit2; Egit; and JGit allow remote Git servers to execute arbitrary commands via a tree containing a crafted .git/config file with (1) an ignorable Unicode codepoint, (2) a git~1/config representation, or (3) mixed case that is improperly handled on a case-insensitive filesystem.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References