Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libgit2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBGIT2-1636281
  • published6 Mar 2024
  • disclosed27 Apr 2020

Introduced: 27 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-12278  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libgit2 package and not the libgit2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.