CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-15501
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-08-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In ng_pkt in transports/smart_pkt.c in libgit2 before 0.26.6 and 0.27.x before 0.27.4, a remote attacker can send a crafted smart-protocol "ng" packet that lacks a '\0' byte to trigger an out-of-bounds read that leads to DoS.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• libgit2 libgit2 (< 0.26.6)
• libgit2 libgit2 (>= 0.27.0 < 0.27.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9406 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104641 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/1f9a8510e1d2f20ed7334eeeddb92c4dd8e7c649 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.26.6 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.27.4 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00024.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.pro-linux.de/sicherheit/2/44650/denial-of-service-in-libgit2.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9406 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104641 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/1f9a8510e1d2f20ed7334eeeddb92c4dd8e7c649 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.26.6 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.27.4 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00024.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.pro-linux.de/sicherheit/2/44650/denial-of-service-in-libgit2.html Third Party Advisory