FKIE_CVE-2016-1901

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-01-20 16:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:42
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Integer overflow in the authenticate_post function in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large value in the Content-Length HTTP header, which triggers a buffer overflow.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=4458abf64172a62b92810c2293450106e6dfc763
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176167.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176198.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00067.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00084.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002817.htmlPatch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3545
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=4458abf64172a62b92810c2293450106e6dfc763
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176167.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176198.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00067.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00084.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002817.htmlPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3545
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fedoraproject fedora 22
cgit_project cgit *
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