# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-24577"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-02-06T21:36:12.517Z"
updatedAt: "2025-05-15T19:43:35.897Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
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-2024-24577"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-24577.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24577"
title: "libgit2 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution due to heap corruption in `git_index_add`"
summary: "libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Using well-crafted inputs to `git_index_add` can cause heap corruption that could be leveraged for arbitrary code execution. There is an issue in the `has_dir_name` function in `src/libgit2/index.c`, which frees an entry that should not be freed. The freed entry is later used and overwritten with potentially bad actor-controlled data leading to controlled heap corruption. Depending on the application that uses libgit2, this could lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue has been patched in version 1.6.5 and 1.7.2."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 1.6.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 1.7.0, \u003c 1.7.2","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"libgit2","product":"libgit2"}]

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