CVE-2016-1901

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2016-1901 · Published 20/01/2016 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-1901 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting cgit (cgit project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.8%, higher than 90.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cgit cgit_project	`≤ 0.11.2`	No fix yet

Description

Integer overflow in the authenticate_post function in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large value in the Content-Length HTTP header, which triggers a buffer overflow.

References

git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176167.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176198.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00067.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00084.html
lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2016-January/002817.html · Patch
debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3545
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/3 · Exploit
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/6 · Patch

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