SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-4465
7
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
10/10/2012
07/25/2018
02/17/2015
07/04/2017
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the substr function in parsing.c in cgit 0.9.0.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an empty username in the "Author" field in a commit.
Solution(s)
- suse-upgrade-cgit
- suse-upgrade-cgit-debuginfo
- suse-upgrade-cgit-debugsource
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