The Git Smart Protocol support in libgit2 before 0.24.6 and 0.25.x before 0.25.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…

Description

The Git Smart Protocol support in libgit2 before 0.24.6 and 0.25.x before 0.25.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via an empty packet line.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.6% · top 10% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-476 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• https://libgit2.github.com/security/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/2fdef641fd0dd2828bd948234ae86de75221a11a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/84d30d569ada986f3eef527cbdb932643c2dd037 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20170110 CVE Request: two security fixes in libgit2 0.25.1, 0.24.6 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20170110 Re: CVE Request: two security fixes in libgit2 0.25.1, 0.24.6 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2017:0397 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2017:0405 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 95339 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2017:0484 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 03:14 UTC.