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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1901

Integer overflow in the authenticate_post function in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large value in the Con...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Integer overflow in the authenticate_post function in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large value in the Content-Length HTTP header, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 cgit

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1"}]}]

Debian:13 cgit

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1"}]}]

Debian:14 cgit

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org