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CVE-2016-8568

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The git_commit_message function in oid.c in libgit2 before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a cat-file command with a crafted object file.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 23, 24, 25
• Libgit2 Project Libgit2: through 0.24.2
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1, 42.2
• Opensuse: 13.2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00075.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00103.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00110.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-01/msg00114.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/7
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93466
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383211
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/3936
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.24.3
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4E77DG5KGQ7L34U75QY7O6NIPKZNQHQJ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X3JBSNJAXP7JA3TGE2NPNRTD77JXFG4E/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XVUEIG6EESZB6BRU2IE3F5NRUEHMAEKC/

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