People running the open-source Git code-repository software and tools based on it, like GitHub, on Mac OS X and Windows computers could have a significant security issue on their hands.
It’s possible for code to be executed remotely on such computers, according to a disclosure on the Linux kernel mailing list.
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Microsoft has issued patches for multiple versions of its Visual Studio software for developers.
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