USN-5686-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Git. This update
provides the corresponding fix for CVE-2022-39253 on Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Cory Snider discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain symbolic links.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause an unexpected behaviour.
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