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CVE-2012-4506 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (gitolite), 6 status rows across 6 suites (hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise, upstream): not-affected 3, DNE 2, needs-triage 1.
Directory traversal vulnerability in gitolite 3.x before 3.1, when wild card repositories and a pattern matching "../" are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to create arbitrary repositories and possibly perform other actions via a .. (dot dot) in a repository name.