CVE-2016-8568

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8568
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8568.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8568
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-02-03T15:59:00.523Z
Modified
2026-03-10T14:12:48.841290Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The gitcommitmessage function in oid.c in libgit2 before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a cat-file command with a crafted object file.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libgit2/libgit2

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
8e268168ecfdcc8efe36b58b514d1b93ea3f47f8
Fixed
4cf1ec7cff28da8838a2f0a9fb330e312ea3f963
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.24.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.1.0
v0.10.0
v0.11.0
v0.12.0
v0.13.0
v0.14.0
v0.15.0
v0.16.0
v0.17.0
v0.18.0
v0.19.0
v0.2.0
v0.20.0
v0.21.0
v0.21.0-rc1
v0.21.0-rc2
v0.22.0
v0.22.0-rc1
v0.22.0-rc2
v0.23.0
v0.23.0-rc1
v0.23.0-rc2
v0.24.0
v0.24.0-rc1
v0.24.1
v0.24.2
v0.3.0
v0.8.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8568.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "23"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "24"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "25"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "42.1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "42.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "13.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]