The official lwa le Git client and related software for Mac and Windows contain a critical bug which makes it possible for a computer to take over. The popular GitHub warns users active for the leak, for which a fix is released.
Git writes that the bug with the particular developers with Windows and Mac. It’s going to be a problem that only clients will find that repositories can access. It’s popular github.com and GitHub Enterprise are not directly vulnerable to the leak.
The bug could allow an attacker to the configuration file of Git, but also of the similar program, Mercurial, overwrite if he has a file wants to clone or check. Because of this, are there any commands to run, which in the extreme case, a computer can be taken over. Windows – and Mac-clients are vulnerable, but that is for Linux, not in principle.
The popular GitHub, where developers Git-code sharing, and encourages all users highly recommend it to their Git clients to update to the latest version, which is available immediately. Also, they should allegedly be careful with the cloning and accessing repositories that are on unsafe or untrusted hosts are to be found. Repos on GitHub are not vulnerable, because the organisation has to say on the vulnerability checks.
Update, Sunday – as a result of confusion about Git and GitHub in the article something clarified. In addition, any factual inaccuracies, so far as known, removed.