From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FFD6C4332F for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S245449AbhLXAPI (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:15:08 -0500 Received: from elephants.elehost.com ([216.66.27.132]:40430 "EHLO elephants.elehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229995AbhLXAPH (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:15:07 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at elehost.com Received: from Mazikeen (cpe00fc8d49d843-cm00fc8d49d840.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.229.22.139] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by elephants.elehost.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id 1BO0F2Cg069066 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:15:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rsbecker@nexbridge.com) Reply-To: From: To: "'Junio C Hamano'" , References: In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: [RFC] squelch log4j inquiries Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:14:57 -0500 Organization: Nexbridge Inc. Message-ID: <01d201d7f85b$4bffb2c0$e3ff1840$@nexbridge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Thread-Index: AQIAo5b9afze7l4WQFVka0p7le4G26vvbr0g Content-Language: en-ca Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On December 23, 2021 6:52 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I wonder if we should do something like this, for limited time like a few > months or so, so that we have something prominently shown at places like > https://github.com/git/git/ > > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano > --- > README.md | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git c/README.md w/README.md > index f6f43e78de..76e99fe5bb 100644 > --- c/README.md > +++ w/README.md > @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system > with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations > and full access to internals. > > +No part of Git is written in Java, hence it is not susceptible to the > +log4j vulnerability that has been causing sensation recently. > + > Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License > version 2 (some parts of it are under different licenses, compatible with the > GPLv2). It was originally written by Linus This is a good idea. I have had to reassure a whole bunch of people in my community about this, not really because of git itself but because of the Maven build associated with EGit/JGit that may (do) have this issue if the wrong version of log4j is available. I would rather not discuss the particulars of the attack vector in this mailing list. --Randall