USN-4220-1: Git vulnerabilities git vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.10 Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Git. Software Description git – fast, scalable, distributed revision control system Details Joern Schneeweisz and Nicolas Joly discovered that Git contained various security flaws. An attacker could possibly use these issues to overwrite arbitrary paths, execute arbitrary code, and overwrite files in the .git directory. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.10 git – 1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.10.1 Ubuntu 19.04 git – 1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.04.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS git – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.5 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS git – 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.7 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2019-1348 CVE-2019-1349 [ more… ]