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CVE-2016-2315

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 17.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

revision.c in git before 2.7.4 uses an incorrect integer data type, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a (1) long filename or (2) many nested trees, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• git: 2.7.3
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp4, 12, 12-sp1
• SUSE Openstack Cloud: 5
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183147.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179121.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/180763.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00059.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00060.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00061.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00062.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00071.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00074.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00076.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00077.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00011.html

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