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CVE-2016-8568

Published: 03/02/2017 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

The git_commit_message function in oid.c in libgit2 prior to 0.24.3 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a cat-file command with a crafted object file.

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Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: libgit2: CVE-2016-8568 CVE-2016-8569
Debian Bug report logs - #840227 libgit2: CVE-2016-8568 CVE-2016-8569 Package: src:libgit2; Maintainer for src:libgit2 is Russell Sim <russellsim@gmailcom>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 18:03:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: confirmed, jessie, security, upstream Found in ...
Arch Linux Issues:
A heap-based read out-of-bounds access has been discovered while parsing a malformed object file ...

References

CWE-125https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.24.3https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/3936https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383211http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93466http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/7http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00114.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00110.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00103.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00075.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X3JBSNJAXP7JA3TGE2NPNRTD77JXFG4E/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XVUEIG6EESZB6BRU2IE3F5NRUEHMAEKC/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4E77DG5KGQ7L34U75QY7O6NIPKZNQHQJ/https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840227https://nvd.nist.govhttps://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2016-8568
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