CVE-2024-24577

Summary

CVE-2024-24577 is a vulnerability affecting the libgit2 library, which provides Git functionality to applications. A heap corruption issue was discovered in the `git_index_add` function, specifically in the `has_dir_name` function within `src/libgit2/index.c`. This vulnerability arises when an entry is inappropriately freed and later used with potentially malicious data, leading to controlled heap corruption. Depending on the application, this could result in arbitrary code execution. The issue has been addressed in versions 1.6.5 and 1.7.2 of the libgit2 library.

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