Moderate: git-lfs security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for git-lfs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server.

Security Fix(es):

• golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while parsing -u- extension (CVE-2020-28851)
• golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while processing bcp47 tag (CVE-2020-28852)
• golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2022-1705)
• golang: net/http: handle server errors after sending GOAWAY (CVE-2022-27664)
• golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30630)
• golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30632)
• golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode (CVE-2022-30635)
• golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working (CVE-2022-32148)
• golang: math/big: decoding big.Float and big.Rat types can panic if the encoded message is too short, potentially allowing a denial of service (CVE-2022-32189)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• git-lfs needs to be rebuild with golang 1.17.7-1 or above

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1913333 - CVE-2020-28851 golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while parsing -u- extension
• BZ - 1913338 - CVE-2020-28852 golang.org/x/text: Panic in language.ParseAcceptLanguage while processing bcp47 tag
• BZ - 2107371 - CVE-2022-30630 golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob
• BZ - 2107374 - CVE-2022-1705 golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header
• BZ - 2107383 - CVE-2022-32148 golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working
• BZ - 2107386 - CVE-2022-30632 golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob
• BZ - 2107388 - CVE-2022-30635 golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode
• BZ - 2113814 - CVE-2022-32189 golang: math/big: decoding big.Float and big.Rat types can panic if the encoded message is too short, potentially allowing a denial of service
• BZ - 2124669 - CVE-2022-27664 golang: net/http: handle server errors after sending GOAWAY

CVEs

• CVE-2020-28851
• CVE-2020-28852
• CVE-2022-1705
• CVE-2022-27664
• CVE-2022-30630
• CVE-2022-30632
• CVE-2022-30635
• CVE-2022-32148
• CVE-2022-32189

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate