VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4465

medium
Published 2012-10-10 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the substr function in parsing.c in cgit 0.9.0.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an empty username in the "Author" field in a commit.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
lars_hjemlicgit{"endIncluding":"0.9.0.3"}
lars_hjemlicgit0.1
lars_hjemlicgit0.2
lars_hjemlicgit0.3
lars_hjemlicgit0.4
lars_hjemlicgit0.5
lars_hjemlicgit0.6
lars_hjemlicgit0.6.1
lars_hjemlicgit0.6.2
lars_hjemlicgit0.6.3
lars_hjemlicgit0.7
lars_hjemlicgit0.7.1
lars_hjemlicgit0.7.2
lars_hjemlicgit0.8
lars_hjemlicgit0.8.1
lars_hjemlicgit0.8.1.1
lars_hjemlicgit0.8.2
lars_hjemlicgit0.8.2.1
lars_hjemlicgit0.8.2.2
lars_hjemlicgit0.8.3
lars_hjemlicgit0.8.3.1
lars_hjemlicgit0.8.3.2
lars_hjemlicgit0.8.3.3
lars_hjemlicgit0.8.3.4
lars_hjemlicgit0.8.3.5
lars_hjemlicgit0.9
lars_hjemlicgit0.9.0.1
lars_hjemlicgit0.9.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.