USN-5057-1: Squashfs-Tools vulnerability

Etienne Stalmans discovered that Squashfs-Tools mishandled certain malformed SQUASHFS files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem...

Fedora 28 : git (2018-75f7624a9f)

Upstream security fixes related to .gitmodules handling. From the upstream announcement : - Submodule 'names' come from the untrusted .gitmodules file, but we blindly append them to $GITDIR/modules to create our on-disk repo paths. This means you can do bad things by putting '../' into the name. ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Git vulnerabilities (USN-3671-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3671-1 advisory. Etienne Stalmans discovered that git did not properly validate git submodules files. A remote attacker could possibly use this to...