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@pks-t pks-t released this 05 Oct 17:37
· 120 commits to maint/v0.26 since this release
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This is a security release fixing the following list of issues:

  • Submodule URLs and paths with a leading "-" are now ignored.
    This is due to the recently discovered CVE-2018-17456, which
    can lead to arbitrary code execution in upstream git. While
    libgit2 itself is not vulnerable, it can be used to inject
    options in an implementation which performs a recursive clone
    by executing an external command.

  • When running repack while doing repo writes,
    packfile_load__cb() could see some temporary files in the
    directory that were bigger than the usual, and makes memcmp
    overflow on the p->pack_name string. This issue was reported
    and fixed by bisho.

  • The configuration file parser used unbounded recursion to parse
    multiline variables, which could lead to a stack overflow. The
    issue was reported by the oss-fuzz project, issue 10048 and
    fixed by Nelson Elhage.

  • The fix to the unbounded recursion introduced a memory leak in
    the config parser. While this leak was never in a public
    release, the oss-fuzz project reported this as issue 10127. The
    fix was implemented by Nelson Elhage and Patrick Steinhardt.

  • When parsing "ok" packets received via the smart protocol, our
    parsing code did not correctly verify the bounds of the
    packets, which could result in a heap-buffer overflow. The
    issue was reported by the oss-fuzz project, issue 9749 and
    fixed by Patrick Steinhardt.

  • The parsing code for the smart protocol has been tightened in
    general, fixing heap-buffer overflows when parsing the packet
    type as well as for "ACK" and "unpack" packets. The issue was
    discovered and fixed by Patrick Steinhardt.

  • Fixed potential integer overflows on platforms with 16 bit
    integers when parsing packets for the smart protocol. The issue
    was discovered and fixed by Patrick Steinhardt.

  • Fixed potential NULL pointer dereference when parsing
    configuration files which have "include.path" statements
    without a value.