USN-3387-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000117)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2017-08-11 04:28 – Updated: 2026-02-10 04:41 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
git vulnerability
Details
Brian Neel, Joern Schneeweisz, and Jeff King discovered that Git did not properly handle host names in 'ssh://' URLs. A remote attacker could use this to construct a git repository that when accessed could run arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.
References
| URL | Type | |
|---|---|---|
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"1:1.8.4.3-1",
"1:1.8.4.4-1",
"1:1.8.5-1",
"1:1.8.5.1-1",
"1:1.8.5.2-1",
"1:1.8.5.2-2",
"1:1.8.5.3-1",
"1:1.9~rc1-1",
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"binaries": [
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"binary_version": "1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.2"
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"binary_name": "git-all",
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"1:2.6.3-1",
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"1:2.7.0-1",
"1:2.7.3-0ubuntu1",
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],
"aliases": [],
"details": "Brian Neel, Joern Schneeweisz, and Jeff King discovered that Git did\nnot properly handle host names in \u0027ssh://\u0027 URLs. A remote attacker\ncould use this to construct a git repository that when accessed could\nrun arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.\n",
"id": "USN-3387-1",
"modified": "2026-02-10T04:41:11Z",
"published": "2017-08-11T04:28:39Z",
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"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3387-1"
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"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000117"
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}
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