CVE-2012-4465 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2012-4465 at MITRE

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the substr function in parsing.c in cgit 0.9.0.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an empty username in the "Author" field in a commit.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	Single
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 783012 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2012:1421-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:58 2023
openSUSE-SU-2012:1422-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:58 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`cgit >= 1.0-1.3`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10137

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 13:06:59 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:18:15 2025