CVE-2008-3546

Desbordamiento de búfer basado en pila de las funciones (1) diff_addremove y (2) diff_change en GIT versiones anteriores a la 1.5.6.4, podría permitir a usuarios locales ejecutar código arbitrariamente a través de un PATH de longitud mayor a PATH_MAX del sistema cuando se ejecutan las utilidades GIT como git-diff o git-grep.

It was discovered that Git did not properly handle long file paths. If a user were tricked into performing commands on a specially crafted Git repository, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. It was discovered that the Git web interface (gitweb) did not correctly handle shell metacharacters when processing certain commands. A remote attacker could send specially crafted commands to the Git server and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Git web server. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 LTS. It was discovered that the Git web interface (gitweb) did not properly restrict the diff.external configuration parameter. A local attacker could exploit this issue and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Git web server. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and 8.10.