CVE-2016-1901

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 4.4%
Published: 1/20/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1901

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.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1CRITICAL9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (1)