CVE-2024-45305 gix-path uses local config across repos when it is the highest scope

gix-path is a crate of the gitoxide project dealing with git paths and their conversions. gix-path executes git to find the path of a configuration file that belongs to the git installation itself, but mistakenly treats the local repository's configuration as system-wide if no higher scoped...

Refs and paths with reserved Windows device names access the devices

Summary On Windows, fetching refs that clash with legacy device names reads from the devices, and checking out paths that clash with such names writes arbitrary data to the devices. This allows a repository, when cloned, to cause indefinite blocking or the production of arbitrary message that...