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Critical Git Bug Allows Malicious Code Execution on Client Machines

posted by Blackmoore on Monday December 22 2014, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-out-the-ddt dept.

martyb writes:

Found on Ars Technica — "Critical Git bug allows malicious code execution on client machines":

Developers who use the official Git client and related software are being urged to install a security update that kills a bug that could allow attackers to hijack end-user computers.

The critical vulnerability affects all Windows- and Mac-based versions of the official Git client and related software that interacts with Git repositories, according to an advisory published Thursday. The bug can be exploited to give remote code execution when the client software accesses booby-trapped Git repositories.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 22 2014, @09:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 22 2014, @09:40PM (#128487)

    A story on a critical bug and it ISN'T about systemd??? I think Mr. Anonymous Coward is slacking off on his story submissions.

  • (Score: 2) by emg on Monday December 22 2014, @10:01PM

    by emg (3464) on Monday December 22 2014, @10:01PM (#128500)

    It's only critical on Windows and Mac, since no Linux distro I'm aware of uses a stupid case-insensitive filesystem. And I don't think systemd has infected Windows or Mac yet.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 22 2014, @11:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 22 2014, @11:44PM (#128526)

      And I don't think systemd has infected Windows or Mac yet.

      I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone lands a patch allowing systemd to replace svchost on windows. At which juncture, the systemd cabal will presumably subsume WIne and equilibrium will have been achieved.