CVE-2016-1901

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1901
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1901.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-1901
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-01-20T16:59:05.880Z
Modified
2025-12-07T03:52:41.753787Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / git.zx2c4.com/cgit

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Git / git.zx2c4.com/cgit

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
4458abf64172a62b92810c2293450106e6dfc763

Affected versions

v0.*

v0.1
v0.10
v0.10.1
v0.10.2
v0.11.0
v0.11.1
v0.11.2
v0.2
v0.3
v0.4
v0.5
v0.6
v0.6.1
v0.6.2
v0.6.3
v0.7
v0.7.1
v0.7.2
v0.8
v0.8.1
v0.8.1.1
v0.8.2
v0.8.2.1
v0.8.2.2
v0.8.3
v0.8.3.1
v0.8.3.2
v0.8.3.3
v0.8.3.4
v0.8.3.5
v0.9
v0.9.0.1
v0.9.0.2
v0.9.0.3
v0.9.1
v0.9.2

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2016-1901-95834c7c",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "digest": {
            "length": 502.0,
            "function_hash": "91807045455295017519516621474102082140"
        },
        "target": {
            "function": "authenticate_post",
            "file": "cgit.c"
        },
        "source": "https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit@4458abf64172a62b92810c2293450106e6dfc763"
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2016-1901-d5b187a7",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "50161904421011037412943174156570592313",
                "323348394024932948650418271075221821184",
                "134652070258692373190625334827825705051",
                "141316581865117512757489622978323703720"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "cgit.c"
        },
        "source": "https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit@4458abf64172a62b92810c2293450106e6dfc763"
    }
]