The latest version of Linus Torvalds' Git version-control system brings experimental support for the SHA-256 cryptographic hash, moving it away from its reliance on the less safe SHA-1. Google and ...

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Git has patched two critical severity security vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code after successfully exploiting heap-based buffer overflow weaknesses. A third Windows ...

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I've been building from the github repo of one of an OSS project's contributors (let's call it Repo 1). The official maintainer seems to actively contribute to that repo. So I thought that's the ...