Advisories » MGASA-2017-0319

Updated libgit2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 29 Aug 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-8568 , CVE-2016-8569 , CVE-2016-10128 , CVE-2016-10129

Description

Read out-of-bounds in git_oid_nfmt (CVE-2016-8568).

DoS using a null pointer dereference in git_commit_message
(CVE-2016-8569).

Insufficient sanitization allows some edge cases in the Git Smart
Protocol which can lead to reading outside of a buffer (CVE-2016-10128,
CVE-2016-10129).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19792
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/4E77DG5KGQ7L34U75QY7O6NIPKZNQHQJ/
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00072.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8568
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8569
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10128
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10129

SRPMS

5/core

• libgit2-0.21.1-3.2.mga5