Mend.io Vulnerability Database

What is a CVE vulnerability ID? icon What is a WS vulnerability ID? icon What is an MSC vulnerability ID? icon
New vulnerability? Tell us about it!
icon

We found results for “”

CVE-2018-15501

Date: August 17, 2018

In ng_pkt in transports/smart_pkt.c in libgit2 before 0.26.6 and 0.27.x before 0.27.4, a remote attacker can send a crafted smart-protocol "ng" packet that lacks a '\0' byte to trigger an out-of-bounds read that leads to DoS.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15501
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1104641
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-15501
https://www.pro-linux.de/sicherheit/2/44650/denial-of-service-in-libgit2.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00024.html
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/1f9a8510e1d2f20ed7334eeeddb92c4dd8e7c649
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=9406
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.26.6
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00031.html
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-15501
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.27.4
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-15501

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
Additional information:

Do you need more information?

Contact Us