libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Using well-crafted inputs to `git_index_add` can cause heap corruption that could be leveraged for arbitrary code execution. There is an issue in the `has_dir_name` function in `src/libgit2/index.c`, which frees an entry that should not be freed. The freed entry is later used and overwritten with potentially bad actor-controlled data leading to controlled heap corruption. Depending on the application that uses libgit2, this could lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue has been patched in version 1.6.5 and 1.7.2.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-02-06T21:36:12.517Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T23:19:52.907Z

Reserved: 2024-01-25T15:09:40.211Z

Link: CVE-2024-24577

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-06T22:16:15.270

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:59:27.603

Link: CVE-2024-24577

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2024-02-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-24577 - Bugzilla