CVE-2016-10129

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

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.

Affected products

Libgit2 Project Libgit2: through 0.24.5; 0.25.0, 0.25.0-rc1, 0.25.0-rc2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00030.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00036.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00072.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/10/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/11/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95339
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/2fdef641fd0dd2828bd948234ae86de75221a11a
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/84d30d569ada986f3eef527cbdb932643c2dd037
https://libgit2.github.com/security/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00030.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00036.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00072.html

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