CVE-2012-4465

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	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 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:11:53 +0100 (CET)
• openSUSE-SU-2012:1422-1, published Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:12:06 +0100 (CET)

List of released packages

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

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 13:06:59 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:46:19 2022