CVE-2018-15501
mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.044 · 91 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
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affected products (11)
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references (25)
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- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9406cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104641cnnvd
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/1f9a8510e1d2f20ed7334eeeddb92c4dd8e7c649cnnvd
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.26.6cnnvd
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.27.4cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00024.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00031.htmlcnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2022.1177cnnvd
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