vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-12278: libgit2 -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 27, 2020
Added
Mar 22, 2022
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. path.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS Alternate Data Streams. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1352.

Solution

debian-upgrade-libgit2
Title
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