CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-10129

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 24, 2017 | Modified: Mar 28, 2017
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Git Smart Protocol support in libgit2 before 0.24.6 and 0.25.x before 0.25.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via an empty packet line.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libgit2 Libgit2_project * 0.24.5 (including)
Libgit2 Libgit2_project 0.25.0 (including) 0.25.0 (including)
Libgit2 Libgit2_project 0.25.0-rc1 (including) 0.25.0-rc1 (including)
Libgit2 Libgit2_project 0.25.0-rc2 (including) 0.25.0-rc2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References