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 <a...@dinwoodie.org> 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
