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GHSA-j39j-6gw9-jw6h: git2 has potential undefined behavior when dereferencing Buf struct

February 4, 2026

If the Buf struct is dereferenced immediately after calling new() or default() on the Buf struct, a null pointer is passed to the unsafe function slice::from_raw_parts. According to the safety section documentation of the function, data must be non-null and aligned even for zero-length slices or slices of ZSTs. Thus, passing a null pointer will lead to undefined behavior.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-j39j-6gw9-jw6h
  • github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs
  • github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs/commit/9e160f15bd056f82143109bb330573381e5de719
  • github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs/issues/1211
  • github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs/pull/1213
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0008.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.20.4

Fixed versions

  • 0.20.4

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.20.4 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Source file

cargo/git2/GHSA-j39j-6gw9-jw6h.yml

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