Bug#774050: CVE-2014-9390

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 08:13:08AM -0800, tony mancill wrote:
> On 12/30/2014 05:18 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> > Here are the relevant commits to backport:
> > 
> > Always ignore case when forbidding .git in ObjectChecker
> > https://github.com/eclipse/jgit/commit/07612a6
> > 
> > Disallow ".git." and ".git<space>"
> > https://github.com/eclipse/jgit/commit/10310bf
> > 
> > Disallow Windows shortname "GIT~1"
> > https://github.com/eclipse/jgit/commit/a09b1b6
> > 
> > Disallow names potentially mapping to ".git" on HFS+
> > https://github.com/eclipse/jgit/commit/d476d2f
> 
> I spent some time looking at this too, but from the perspective of what
> upstream release branches have these commits.
> 
> They are on stable-3.4, which is version 3.4.2 (and is the closest to
> 3.4.0, which is what we have in jessie/sid), but upstream didn't apply
> them to stable-2.0 (wheezy).  So I think the patches will need to be
> cherry-picked or hand-applied to our source versions.
> 
> We'll also need to create security-${RELEASE} branches in the pkg-java
> repo for this, as 3.5.2 has already been staged on master.
> 
> I do wonder how many of our users are running case-insensitive file
> systems though...

Can we please get that fixed in jessie?

Cheers,
        Moritz