2.17.4

Git v2.17.4 Release Notes =========================

This release is to address the security issue: CVE-2020-5260

Fixes since v2.17.3 -------------------

• With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential helper machinery can be fooled to give credential information for a wrong host. The attack has been made impossible by forbidding a newline character in any value passed via the credential protocol.

Credit for finding the vulnerability goes to Felix Wilhelm of Google Project Zero.