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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-15501: Out-of-bounds Read

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-15501: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/18/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

In ng_pkt in transports/smart_pkt.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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libgit2

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