Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-96968.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-96968
Upstream
Published
2026-08-20T19:16:55Z
Modified
2026-08-30T05:26:50Z
Summary
CVE-2026-53587 affecting package libgit2 1.7.2-1
Details

libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Prior to 1.8.6 and 1.9.5, libgit2 performs a fixed-size strncmp in setdata in src/libgit2/transports/smartpkt.c without first verifying that the smart-protocol pkt-line capability buffer contains 14 bytes. A malicious Git server can make bytes after the pkt-line complete object-format=, causing format_str to advance beyond the pkt-line and the following memchr length calculation to underflow. The resulting heap out-of-bounds walk can crash a client during the first refs-advertisement packet over HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, or the Git protocol. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.6 and 1.9.5.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / libgit2

Package

Name
libgit2
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/libgit2

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
1.7.2-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-96968.json"