CVE-2012-4506 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in gitolite 3.x before 3.1 when wild card repositories and a pattern matching ../\ are enabled allows remote authenticated users to create arbitrary repositories and possibly perform other actions via a .. (dot dot) in a repository name.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/50896 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55853 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79130 https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/f636ce3ba3e340569b26d1e47b9d9b62dd8a3bf2 https://groups.google.com/forum/!topic/gitolite/K9SnQNhCQ-0/discussion