Comment by orblivion
6 days ago
So this was disclosed before patching? With all of the alarming "here's how we can pwn your machine" posts turning out to be months after the fact, I figured by now that these blog posts all happen after all the distros have long patched it.
It seems like it would be appropriate to make it clear "this is important now" vs "don't worry you probably already patched this" in the headline to save our time for those who aren't just reading these posts out of interest.
Commits fixing the bug date back around 3 or 4 weeks. The patched release came 3 weeks ago. Perhaps some parties weren't informed that it's security critical (Homebrew, Arch, etc) and are now scrambling
I'm not privy to the exact communications that happened, but per the Ubuntu changelog they prepared a patch a week ago[1] (which is about the normal timeline for notification per[2]). Homebrew is not on the distros list, so likely wouldn't have got an early notification. Arch is, but remember "The Arch Security Team is a group of volunteers"[3].
[1]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/git/1:2.43.0-1ubuntu7.3
[2]: https://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros
[3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Security_Team
Am I reading this wrong? As of this writing it all says "vulnerable".
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-48384
Just went and checked and the latest version on macOS is over a year old..
>git version 2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)