git: Heap overflow in `git archive`, `git log --format` leading to RCE

A flaw was found in Git, a distributed revision control system. This issue occurs due to an integer overflow in pretty.c::formatandpadcommit, where a sizet is stored improperly as an int, and then added as an offset to a memcpy. This overflow can be triggered directly by a user running a command...

git: Heap overflow in `git archive`, `git log --format` leading to RCE

A flaw was found in Git, a distributed revision control system. This issue occurs due to an integer overflow in pretty.c::formatandpadcommit, where a sizet is stored improperly as an int, and then added as an offset to a memcpy. This overflow can be triggered directly by a user running a command...