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Debian: CVE-2020-12279: libgit2 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-12279: libgit2 -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/27/2020
Created
03/23/2022
Added
03/22/2022
Modified
03/22/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-libgit2

References

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