CVE-2024-24577

Publication date 6 February 2024

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.6 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libgit2 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Fixed 1.5.1+ds-1ubuntu1.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.1.0+dfsg.1-4.1ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 0.28.4+dfsg.1-2ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.26.0+dfsg.1-1.1ubuntu0.2+esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.24.1-2ubuntu0.2+esm2
14.04 LTS trusty
Vulnerable

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.6 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L