PT-2016-2695 · Git+4 · Git+4

Laël Cellier · Published 2016-03-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-2315

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions git versions prior to 2.7.4

Description The issue is related to the use of an incorrect integer data type in the revision.c file of the git distributed version control system. This can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long filename or many nested trees, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Recommendations For git versions prior to 2.7.4, update to version 2.7.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-02087

CESA-2016_0496

CVE-2016-2315

DSA-3521-1

MGASA-2016-0119

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0802-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0803-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0829-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_0832-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10099-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10137-1

RHSA-2016:0496

RHSA-2016:0497

RHSA-2016_0496

SUSE-SU-2016:0796-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0798-1

SUSE-SU-2016_0796-1

SUSE-SU-2016_0798-1

USN-2938-1

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Git

References · 72

• https://github.com/git/git/commit/34fa79a6cde56d6d428ab0d3160cb094ebad3305 · Patch
• https://github.com/git/git/commit/de1e67d0703894cb6ea782e36abb63976ab07e60 · Patch
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00061.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10099-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0496.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3521 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-01 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00076.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00071.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2315 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-02087 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2315 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00062.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0798-1 · Vendor Advisory