This is a security release fixing the following list of issues:

• Submodule URLs and paths with a leading "-" are now ignored. This is due to the recently discovered CVE-2018-17456, which can lead to arbitrary code execution in upstream git. While libgit2 itself is not vulnerable, it can be used to inject options in an implementation which performs a recursive clone by executing an external command.

• When running repack while doing repo writes, packfile_load__cb() could see some temporary files in the directory that were bigger than the usual, and makes memcmp overflow on the p->pack_name string. This issue was reported and fixed by bisho.

• The configuration file parser used unbounded recursion to parse multiline variables, which could lead to a stack overflow. The issue was reported by the oss-fuzz project, issue 10048 and fixed by Nelson Elhage.

• The fix to the unbounded recursion introduced a memory leak in the config parser. While this leak was never in a public release, the oss-fuzz project reported this as issue 10127. The fix was implemented by Nelson Elhage and Patrick Steinhardt.

• When parsing "ok" packets received via the smart protocol, our parsing code did not correctly verify the bounds of the packets, which could result in a heap-buffer overflow. The issue was reported by the oss-fuzz project, issue 9749 and fixed by Patrick Steinhardt.

• The parsing code for the smart protocol has been tightened in general, fixing heap-buffer overflows when parsing the packet type as well as for "ACK" and "unpack" packets. The issue was discovered and fixed by Patrick Steinhardt.

• Fixed potential integer overflows on platforms with 16 bit integers when parsing packets for the smart protocol. The issue was discovered and fixed by Patrick Steinhardt.

• Fixed potential NULL pointer dereference when parsing configuration files which have "include.path" or "includeIf..path" statements without a value.