CVE-2008-5517 Information

Description

The web interface in git (gitweb) 1.5.x before 1.5.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters related to (1) git_snapshot and (2) git_object.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512330 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00002.html http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=commitdiff;h=516381d5 http://secunia.com/advisories/33964 http://secunia.com/advisories/34194 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0005 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1708 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200903-15.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/20/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/21/7 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/23/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500008/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33215 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-723-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0175 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479715 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2936