jelmer/dulwich dulwich-1.2.5

dulwich 1.2.5

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This is a security release. All users are encouraged to upgrade.

Security fixes

• GHSA-gfhv-vqv2-4544 -- Validate submodule paths in porcelain.submodule_update (and thus porcelain.clone(recurse_submodules=True)). A crafted upstream repository could carry a submodule whose path was .git/hooks (or any other path inside .git or above the work tree), causing the submodule's tree contents to be written there with their executable bits intact. The dulwich analogue of git's CVE-2024-32002 / CVE-2024-32004. (Reported by tonghuaroot)

• CVE-2026-42305 -- Harden tree path validation against entry names that are harmless on POSIX but dangerous when checked out on Windows. validate_path_element_ntfs now also rejects Windows path separators, the alternate data stream marker :, NTFS 8.3 short-name aliases of .git, and reserved Windows device names. core.protectNTFS now defaults to true on every platform, and both core.protectNTFS and core.protectHFS are now read under their correct option names. (Reported by Christopher Toth)

• CVE-2026-42563 -- Shell-quote values substituted into ProcessMergeDriver commands. A malicious branch could inject shell commands when a merge driver referencing %P was configured. (Reported by Ravishanker Kusuma (hayageek))

• CVE-2026-47712 -- Sanitize commit subjects used in porcelain.format_patch filenames so a malicious subject (e.g. x/../../x) cannot direct the generated patch outside outdir. (Reported by Christopher Toth)

• receive.maxInputSize -- Honour receive.maxInputSize in ReceivePackHandler. Previously a remote unauthenticated client could send a tiny crafted pack that declared a huge dest_size and trigger hundreds of MB of allocation over git-receive-pack. (Reported by Liyi, Ziyue, Strick, Maurice and Chenchen @ University of Sydney)