Vigil@nce - libgit2: denial of service via Status Codes
December 2018 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: intranet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 26/10/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can generate a fatal error via Status Codes of
libgit2, in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/libgit2-denial-of-service-via-Status-Codes-27619