UBUNTU-CVE-2019-1387

An issue was found in Git before v2.24.1, v2.23.1, v2.22.2, v2.21.1, v2.20.2, v2.19.3, v2.18.2, v2.17.3, v2.16.6, v2.15.4, and v2.14.6. Recursive clones are currently affected by a vulnerability that is caused by too-lax validation of submodule names, allowing very targeted attacks via remote cod...

Updated git packages fix security vulnerabilities

It was possible to trick the code that sanity-checks paths on NTFS into reading random piece of memory CVE-2018-11233. 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...