Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 27, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2020-12279
CVE-2020-12279
Description
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.
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Affected products
2- libgit2/libgit2description
- Range: <0.28.4 or >=0.9.0 <0.99.0
Patches
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References
6- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00031.htmlmitremailing-list
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00034.htmlmitremailing-list
- github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-589j-mmg9-733vmitre
- github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/64c612cc3e25eff5fb02c59ef5a66ba7a14751e4mitre
- github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.28.4mitre
- github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.99.0mitre
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