Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-11233  

A security issue has been found in git before 2.17.1, where the code that sanify-check paths in is_ntfs_dotgit() could have been tricked into reading random pieces of memory.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Information disclosure

Description

A security issue has been found in git before 2.17.1, where the code that sanify-check paths in is_ntfs_dotgit() could have been tricked into reading random pieces of memory.

AVG-711 git 2.17.0-1 2.17.1-1 Critical Fixed

01 Jun 2018 ASA-201806-1 AVG-711 git Critical multiple issues

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/29/889
https://github.com/gitster/git/commit/11a9f4d807a0d71dc6eff51bb87baf4ca2cccf1d