DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15501

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-15501
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15501.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15501
Upstream
Published
2018-08-18T02:29:01Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:45Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In ngpkt in transports/smartpkt.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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libgit2

Package

Name
libgit2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libgit2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.27.4+dfsg.1-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:12 / libgit2

Package

Name
libgit2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libgit2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.27.4+dfsg.1-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:13 / libgit2

Package

Name
libgit2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libgit2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.27.4+dfsg.1-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:14 / libgit2

Package

Name
libgit2
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libgit2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.27.4+dfsg.1-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}