More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247040 Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.
Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as this tracking bug. This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated when new packages are pushed to stable. ===== # bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required) type=security # low, medium, high, urgent (required) severity=medium # testing, stable request=testing # Bug numbers: 1234,9876 bugs=2247040,2248699 # Description of your update notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE] # Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds autokarma=True stable_karma=3 unstable_karma=-3 # Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable close_bugs=True # Suggest that users restart after update suggest_reboot=False ====== Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new
Per https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-41040, this is fixed in GitPython 3.1.37 and later. Therefore, only EPEL 8 has an affected version, 3.1.18. Other branches have at least 3.1.40. Since GitPython has not always been fully compatible across patch releases, and quite a few things depend on it, $ fedrq wrsrc -s GitPython -b epel8 centpkg-0.9.1-1.el8.src csmock-3.8.0-1.el8.src libabigail-2.6-1.el8.src packit-0.59.0-2.el8.src rebase-helper-0.27.0-1.el8.src rpkg-1.68-1.el8.src I attempted to backport https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/pull/1644 and https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/pull/1672 to version 3.1.18 in EPEL8. https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/GitPython/pull-request/9
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-106950fd79 (GitPython-3.1.18-3.el8) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-106950fd79
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-106950fd79 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 testing repository. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-106950fd79 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-106950fd79 (GitPython-3.1.18-3.el8) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.