{"id":"USN-5686-1","summary":"git vulnerabilities","details":"Cory Snider discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain symbolic links.\nAn attacker could possibly use this issue to cause an unexpected behaviour.\n(CVE-2022-39253)\n\nKevin Backhouse discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain command strings.\nAn attacker could possibly use this issue to arbitrary code 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