USN-5871-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Git. A backport fixing part of the vulnerability in CVE-2023-22490 was required. This update fix this for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain repositories. An attacker could use this issue to make Git uses its local clone optimization even when using a non-local transport. (CVE-2023-22490)
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