This patch is taken from ; we need it to fix the use-after-free error in 'git_commit_extract_signature' reported at . From ade0d9c658fdfc68d8046935f6908f033fe7a529 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Steinhardt Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:46:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] commit: avoid possible use-after-free diff --git a/src/commit.c b/src/commit.c index 89a4db1..05b70a9 100644 --- a/src/commit.c +++ b/src/commit.c @@ -766,8 +766,9 @@ int git_commit_extract_signature(git_buf *signature, git_buf *signed_data, git_r if (git_buf_oom(signature)) goto oom; + error = git_buf_puts(signed_data, eol+1); git_odb_object_free(obj); - return git_buf_puts(signed_data, eol+1); + return error; } giterr_set(GITERR_OBJECT, "this commit is not signed");