VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-10129

high
Published 2017-03-24 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The Git Smart Protocol support in libgit2 before 0.24.6 and 0.25.x before 0.25.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via an empty packet line.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.17.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.17.0-1
arch archfixed1:0.24.6-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.25.1+really0.24.6-1
debian debiansidfixed0.25.1+really0.24.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.25.1+really0.24.6-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libgit2_projectlibgit2{"endIncluding":"0.24.5"}
libgit2_projectlibgit20.25.0

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.