From cf273ba3958ad02afa361167a0d0f82e1f4b5f4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "GPT 5.5" <codex@openai.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:39:02 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] avoid duplicate validation in set_value

CVE: CVE-2026-44244
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/commit/8e24503b42c1d63dd98e8b2e6a2f655bdd0821e3]

Co-authored-by: Sebastian Thiel <sebastian.thiel@icloud.com>
(cherry picked from commit 8e24503b42c1d63dd98e8b2e6a2f655bdd0821e3)
Signed-off-by: Darsh Kelaiya <dkelaiya@cisco.com>
---
 git/config.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git/config.py b/git/config.py
index ce307110..7988f5d9 100644
--- a/git/config.py
+++ b/git/config.py
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ class GitConfigParser(cp.RawConfigParser, metaclass=MetaParserBuilder):
         value_str = self._value_to_string_safe(value)
         if not self.has_section(section):
             self.add_section(section)
-        self.set(section, option, value_str)
+        super().set(section, option, value_str)
         return self
 
     @needs_values
-- 
2.35.6