CVE-2016-8568 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-8568?

CVE-2016-8568 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 3 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The git_commit_message function in oid.c in libgit2 before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a cat-file command with a crafted object file.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8568?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Libgit2 Project Libgit2, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse, Suse Linux Enterprise.

How do I fix CVE-2016-8568?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-8568 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8568 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2016-8568, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8568, GHSA-jxhv-8xc9-73hq, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8568.