CVE-2020-12279: Improper Input Validation

April 27, 2020 (updated July 21, 2021)

An issue was discovered in libgit2, which is used by pygit2 package: checkout.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS short names.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12279

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