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Debian 10 Buster DLA-3340-1 Critical: Libgit2 Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey February 23, 2023
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian LTS Notification DLA-3341-2 alerts users to critical vulnerabilities in libxml2, including potential remote code execution and XML parsing issues. Immediate update recommended.
A vulnerability have been found in libgit2, a cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git, which may result in remote code execution when cloning a repository on a NTFS-...

Summary

CVE-2020-12278

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.

CVE-2020-12279

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

CVE-2023-22742

libgit2 is a cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git.
When using an SSH remote with the optional libssh2 backend, libgit2 does
not perform certificate checking by default. Prior versions of libgit2
require the caller to set the `certificate_check` field of libgit2's
`git_remote_callbacks` structure - if a certificate check callback is
not set, libgit2 does not perform any certificate checking. This means

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Package: libgit2
Version: 0.27.7+dfsg.1-0.2+deb10u1
CVE ID: CVE-2020-12278 CVE-2020-12279 CVE-2023-22742
Debian Bug: 1029368

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