CVE-2018-11233: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Git before 2.13.7, 2.14.x before 2.14.4, 2.15.x before 2.15.2, 2.16.x before 2.16.4, and 2.17.x before 2.17.1, code to sanity-check pathnames on NTFS can result in reading out-of-bounds memory.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
• Git-Scm Git: up to and including 2.13.6; from 2.14.0, up to and including 2.14.3; from 2.15.0, up to and including 2.15.1; from 2.16.0, up to and including 2.16.3; version 2.17.0 only

Published 2018-05-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.