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CVE-2016-1901

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• Cgit Project Cgit: through 0.11.2
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 22

References

• http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=4458abf64172a62b92810c2293450106e6dfc763
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176167.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176198.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00067.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00084.html
• http://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002817.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3545
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6
• http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=4458abf64172a62b92810c2293450106e6dfc763
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176167.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176198.html

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