Hi,

NVD site  https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25815 is stating that CVE 
affects the Git for Windows and Debain security tracker - 
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-25815
has provided the CVE  fix commit 
https://github.com/git/git/commit/c4137be0f5a6edf9a9044e6e43ecf4468c7a4046 and 
stated that CVE fixed in Debain unstable version(sid)


Kindly review the CVE, If it affects only Windows please approve the patch else 
please respond I will try to send patch for CVE fix.

CVE description:
In Git for Windows, the Windows port of Git, no localized messages are shipped 
with the installer. As a consequence, Git is expected not to localize messages 
at all, and skips the gettext initialization. However, due to a change in 
MINGW-packages, the `gettext()` function's implicit initialization no longer 
uses the runtime prefix but uses the hard-coded path `C:\mingw64\share\locale` 
to look for localized messages. And since any authenticated user has the 
permission to create folders in `C:\` (and since `C:\mingw64` does not 
typically exist), it is possible for low-privilege users to place fake messages 
in that location where `git.exe` will pick them up in version 2.40.1. This 
vulnerability is relatively hard to exploit and requires social engineering. 
For example, a legitimate message at the end of a clone could be maliciously 
modified to ask the user to direct their web browser to a malicious website, 
and the user might think that the message comes from Git and is legitimate. It 
does require local write access by the attacker, though, which makes this 
attack vector less likely. Version 2.40.1 contains a patch for this issue. Some 
workarounds are available. Do not work on a Windows machine with shared 
accounts, or alternatively create a `C:\mingw64` folder and leave it empty. 
Users who have administrative rights may remove the permission to create 
folders in `C:\`.


References:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25815
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/security/advisories/GHSA-9w66-8mq8-5vm8
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-25815
https://github.com/git/git/commit/c4137be0f5a6edf9a9044e6e43ecf4468c7a4046
[https://opengraph.githubassets.com/378f0913a5e21a34e25674de17d23163b810deb2ea3446cc80bff6a0804522c7/git/git/commit/c4137be0f5a6edf9a9044e6e43ecf4468c7a4046]<https://github.com/git/git/commit/c4137be0f5a6edf9a9044e6e43ecf4468c7a4046>
gettext: avoid using gettext if the locale dir is not present ยท 
git/git@c4137be<https://github.com/git/git/commit/c4137be0f5a6edf9a9044e6e43ecf4468c7a4046>
In cc5e1bf99247 (gettext: avoid initialization if the locale dir is not 
present, 2018-04-21) Git was taught to avoid a costly gettext start-up when 
there are not even any localized messages to work...
github.com

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Sent: Monday, May 22, 2023 1:06 PM
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Cc: G Pillai, Hari <[email protected]>
Subject: [oe-core][kirkstone][PATCH 1/1] git: ignore CVE-2023-25815

This is specific to Git-for-Windows.

Signed-off-by: Archana Polampalli <[email protected]>
---
 meta/recipes-devtools/git/git_2.39.2.bb | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git_2.39.2.bb 
b/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git_2.39.2.bb
index 222e545f60..9fac9d13f8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git_2.39.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/git/git_2.39.2.bb
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ CVE_PRODUCT = "git-scm:git"
 CVE_CHECK_IGNORE += "CVE-2022-24975"
 # This is specific to Git-for-Windows
 CVE_CHECK_IGNORE += "CVE-2022-41953"
+# This is specific to Git-for-Windows
+CVE_CHECK_IGNORE += "CVE-2023-25815"

 PACKAGECONFIG ??= "expat curl"
 PACKAGECONFIG[cvsserver] = ""
--
2.40.0

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