vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-2938-1 (CVE-2016-2315): Git vulnerabilities

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 21, 2016
Added
Mar 22, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

revision.c in git before 2.7.4 uses an incorrect integer data type, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a (1) long filename or (2) many nested trees, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-git
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