CVE-2008-3546
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-08-07 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 09:45
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the (1) diff_addremove and (2) diff_change functions in GIT before 1.5.6.4 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a PATH whose length is larger than the system's PATH_MAX when running GIT utilities such as git-diff or git-grep.
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