Debian Security Update DSA-5078 zsh - security update

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It was discovered that zsh, a powerful shell and scripting language, did not prevent recursive prompt expansion. This would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands into a user's shell, for instance by tricking a vcs_info user into checking out a git branch with a specially crafted name.

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