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CVE-2018-15501

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 4.34% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-08-18 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2018-15501
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.34%

Original NVD Description

In ng_pkt in transports/smart_pkt.c in libgit2 before 0.26.6 and 0.27.x before 0.27.4, a remote attacker can send a crafted smart-protocol "ng" packet that lacks a '\0' byte to trigger an out-of-bounds read that leads to DoS.

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