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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-41903"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-01-17T22:17:16.123Z"
updatedAt: "2025-03-10T21:21:50.039Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-41903"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-41903.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-41903"
title: "Integer overflow in `git archive`, `git log --format` leading to RCE in git"
summary: "Git is distributed revision control system. `git log` can display commits in an arbitrary format using its `--format` specifiers. This functionality is also exposed to `git archive` via the `export-subst` gitattribute. When processing the padding operators, there is a integer overflow in `pretty.c::format_and_pad_commit()` where a `size_t` 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 which invokes the commit formatting machinery (e.g., `git log --format=...`). It may also be triggered indirectly through git archive via the export-subst mechanism, which expands format specifiers inside of files within the repository during a git archive. This integer overflow can result in arbitrary heap writes, which may result in arbitrary code execution. The problem has been patched in the versions published on 2023-01-17, going back to v2.30.7. Users are advised to upgrade. Users who are unable to upgrade should disable `git archive` in untrusted repositories. If you expose git archive via `git daemon`, disable it by running `git config --global daemon.uploadArch false`."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 2.30.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.31.0, \u003c 2.31.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.32.0, \u003c 2.32.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.33.0, \u003c 2.33.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.34.0, \u003c 2.34.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.35.0, \u003c 2.35.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.36.0, \u003c 2.36.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.37.0, \u003c 2.37.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.38.0, \u003c 2.38.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"= 2.39.0","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"git","product":"git"}]

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