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Fedora 39: FEDORA-2024-92bac3b909 Critical: libgit2 Heap Corruption

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Attention Fedora 39 Users: A crucial update for libgit2 has been released, addressing serious security vulnerabilities identified as CVE-2024-24577 and CVE-2024-24575.
Update to 1.7.2 Resolves: CVE-2024-24577 Resolves: CVE-2024-24575

Summary

libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods

provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing

you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language

with bindings.

Update Information:

Update to 1.7.2 Resolves: CVE-2024-24577 Resolves: CVE-2024-24575

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Topics Covered

security advisory heap corruption Fedora code execution infinite loop version update libgit2

Change Log

* Wed Feb 7 2024 Stephen Gallagher - 1.7.2-1 - Update to 1.7.2 * Wed Feb 7 2024 Stephen Gallagher - 1.7.1-5 - Skip 'pack' tests on F40+ * Thu Jan 25 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.7.1-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Jan 21 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.7.1-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2261319 - libgit2: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f40 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2261319 [ 2 ] Bug #2263096 - TRIAGE CVE-2024-24577 libgit2: arbitrary code execution due to heap corruption in git_index_add [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263096 [ 3 ] Bug #2263101 - TRIAGE CVE-2024-24575 libgit2: potential infiniate loop condition in git_revparse_single [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263101

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-92bac3b909' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: libgit2
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 1.7.2
Release: 1.fc39
URL: https://libgit2.org/
Summary: C implementation of the Git core methods as a library with a solid API

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Topics Covered

security advisory heap corruption Fedora code execution infinite loop version update libgit2

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