Last updated 13 August 2026
Buffer overflow in the gitpktparseline function in transports/smartpkt.c in the Git Smart Protocol support in libgit2 before 0.24.6 and 0.25.x before 0.25.1 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted non-flush packet.
Last updated 13 August 2026
The gitoidnfmt function in commit.c in libgit2 before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a cat-file command with a crafted object file.
CVE-2016-8568
Read out-of-bounds in gitoidnfmt: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/3936
CVE-2016-8569
DoS using a null pointer dereference in gitcommitmessage: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/3937
Proposed patch:
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/3956