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high7.5

CVE-2018-15501

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 lac…

Impact

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 products

VendorProductAffected versions
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 8.0, 9.0
Libgit2Libgit2
before 0.26.6
from 0.27.0 before 0.27.4

Weakness classification

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