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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12279

An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. checkout.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS short n...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. checkout.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS short names. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1353.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 libgit2

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.28.4+dfsg.1-2"}]}]

Debian:13 libgit2

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.28.4+dfsg.1-2"}]}]

Debian:14 libgit2

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.28.4+dfsg.1-2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org