March 5, 2024, 6:46 p.m. |

Ubuntu security notices ubuntu.com

It was discovered that libgit2 mishandled equivalent filenames on NTFS
partitions. If a user or automated system were tricked into cloning a
specially crafted repository, an attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-12278, CVE-2020-12279)

It was discovered that libgit2 did not perform certificate checking by
default. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a
machine-in-the-middle attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, …

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