Important: git

Issue Overview:

Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if ‘.’ were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.(CVE-2018-19486)

Affected Packages:

git

Issue Correction:
Run yum update git to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    git-debuginfo-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.i686  
    git-daemon-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.i686  
    git-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.i686  
    git-svn-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    git-all-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch  
    git-cvs-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch  
    perl-Git-SVN-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch  
    gitweb-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch  
    perl-Git-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch  
    git-email-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch  
    git-hg-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch  
    git-bzr-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch  
    emacs-git-el-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch  
    git-p4-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch  
    emacs-git-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.noarch  
  
src:  
    git-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    git-daemon-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.x86_64  
    git-svn-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.x86_64  
    git-debuginfo-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.x86_64  
    git-2.14.5-1.60.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-19486

Mitre: CVE-2018-19486