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[PATCH 0/2] worktree: Fix out of bounds read that causes data loss and reject invalid empty input in worktree add

From: Matthias Aßhauer via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-25 11:19:10

Passing an empty string to git worktree add (typically via an unset
variable, e.g. git worktree add "$UNSET_VAR" -b tb origin/main) can result
in BUG: How come '' becomes empty after sanitization? but it can also have
worse consequences: recursively deleting the current working directory,
including .git. The inconsistent behaviour is caused by worktree_basename
reading unrelated bytes from the memory before path and passing that back to
add_worktree, which can circumvent the check for the BUG call.

Matthias Aßhauer (2):
  worktree: don't read out of bounds
  worktree: reject empty string

 builtin/worktree.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)


base-commit: 9a0c4701dcd5725c4184599322b52933ff5005ca
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2187%2Frimrul%2Fworktree-fix-oob-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2187/rimrul/worktree-fix-oob-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2187
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