CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8568
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The git_commit_message function in oid.c in libgit2 before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a cat-file command with a crafted object file.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 23
• fedoraproject fedora 24
• fedoraproject fedora 25
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse leap 42.2
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• suse linux enterprise 12.0
• libgit2 project libgit2 (<= 0.24.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00075.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00103.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00110.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00114.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93466 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383211 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/3936 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.24.3 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4E77DG5KGQ7L34U75QY7O6NIPKZNQHQJ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X3JBSNJAXP7JA3TGE2NPNRTD77JXFG4E/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XVUEIG6EESZB6BRU2IE3F5NRUEHMAEKC/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00075.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00103.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00110.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00114.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93466 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383211 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/3936 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.24.3 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4E77DG5KGQ7L34U75QY7O6NIPKZNQHQJ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X3JBSNJAXP7JA3TGE2NPNRTD77JXFG4E/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XVUEIG6EESZB6BRU2IE3F5NRUEHMAEKC/ lists.fedoraproject.org