From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 42129 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2018 03:03:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 42119 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jul 2018 03:03:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPAM_BODY,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=life, H*RU:209.85.160.67, Hx-spam-relays-external:209.85.160.67, personal X-HELO: mail-pl0-f67.google.com Received: from mail-pl0-f67.google.com (HELO mail-pl0-f67.google.com) (209.85.160.67) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 20 Jul 2018 03:03:01 +0000 Received: by mail-pl0-f67.google.com with SMTP id 31-v6so4522383plc.4 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 20:03:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=k7i.jp; s=google; h=date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=mqeILRUihvGOpp4zyQhGG9c+VlXBxpl7Dz1DHQ+n1g0=; b=YvYgfXY36j3kYt2V7wg/LwW3PyPlReWtA85jimJKaBQLGaUvkx1ZMc2P2m19PpWtQh JH6DQzaFMjZ4NzWhiDuA8c/4rPDn7JnaF4Mv397n8RZ7F/HsTD/uzoiXVx3DP2nuS5a1 PjJLhlW3YC4oBLLhLV0u4cS+0V4lFhi2Z2I5PUg0wZgJ2094/QE6C57fvkIBcXjBUQYe h9pUFzw16z527qDuTzG7tEWv97iWqTCKxASBTjVZ82UoYfRMAVbCE8VsUKJaYC30AZ5K 1RiwBZtHkRM5uzaXnoL9EPyovNi1TNhc5qTt44WCKbqlzGxAyqNiFubtfQ3EBa7CyJFk SvqQ== Return-Path: Received: from [10.196.5.68] ([27.110.51.2]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n86-v6sm672490pfj.68.2018.07.19.20.02.57 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 19 Jul 2018 20:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:51:00 -0000 From: Akihiko Kawaguchi To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Question on CVE-2018-11235 In-Reply-To: References: <20180719165604.7996.F7B0B048@k7i.jp> X-Mailer-Plugin: Cliche Inserter for Becky!2 Ver.0.03 Rev.0 Message-Id: <20180720120255.7CAA.F7B0B048@k7i.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-07/txt/msg00189.txt.bz2 Adam, Thank you so much for your prompt reply, and your contribution to git package maintenance. I hope your personal life goes well. I will check your advice. Best Regards, Kawaguchi On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:38:51 +0100 Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 08:56, Akihiko Kawaguchi wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone know when git client package to fix the following > > vulnerability will be released for Cygwin? > > > > https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11235 > > > > Currently, all the versions I can choose on Cygwin installer are > > 2.16.1-1, 2.16.2-1 or 2.17.0-1. > > I'm afraid personal life has got in the way of me producing a more > up-to-date version of Git since the versions you've found. I'll > produce a new release when I get the chance, but I don't want to > commit to any particular dates at this point. > > In the meantime, I'd suggest either not cloning untrusted repositories > while using the `--recurse-submodules` option (or, as general security > practice, not cloning untrusted repositories at all), or compiling Git > locally yourself. > > As a general point, if people want to compile Git themselves, it's > normally straightforward, either using the upstream Git sources, or > using the Cygport packaging sources from > https://github.com/me-and/Cygwin-Git. I only haven't released it > myself because I have a higher bar for making sure the test suite > passes and so forth for something that'll be used by a significant > chunk of the Cygwin user base, than for something that's only going to > be used by me. > > Adam > Your local friendly Git package maintainer > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple