[Secure-testing-team] Bug#827405: cgit: update to version 1.0 fixes CVE-2016-2315

Peter Colberg peter at colberg.org
Wed Jun 15 19:10:40 UTC 2016


Package: cgit
Version: 0.12.0.git2.7.0-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Justification: user security hole

Dear Maintainer,

The above version of cgit embeds git 2.7.0, which is affected
by CVE-2016-2315 [1]. The update to cgit 1.0 [2, 3] includes
git 2.8.3, which fixes the issue.

[1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2315
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.cgit/3076
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/826764

Regards,
Peter



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