Re: Segmentation fault found while fuzzing .pack file under 2.7.0.rc3

> Jeff King wrote:
> 
>> Git packfiles come from two places:
>>
>>   1. Local maintenance repacks loose and already-packed objects into a
>>      new packfile. We trust the local repack process to generate a valid
>>      packfile (though the contents of individual objects may be
>>      untrusted, of course).
> 
> I think we should reconsider such trust.  If one user creates a
> malicious pack, if another user uses read-only git commands to access
> the repository (after inspecting .git/config to make sure it doesn't
> contain anything scary) the result should not be arbitrary code
> execution.
> 
> Producing bogus output or aborting is okay; arbitrary code execution
> less so.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan