Bug 2520693 (CVE-2026-53587) - CVE-2026-53587 libgit2: libgit2: Denial of Service due to heap out-of-bounds read from malicious Git server
Summary: CVE-2026-53587 libgit2: libgit2: Denial of Service due to heap out-of-bounds ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53587
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2521755 2521756 2521757 2521754
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-08-20 19:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-24 08:00 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-20 19:02:38 UTC
libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Prior to 1.8.6 and 1.9.5, libgit2 performs a fixed-size strncmp in set_data in src/libgit2/transports/smart_pkt.c without first verifying that the smart-protocol pkt-line capability buffer contains 14 bytes. A malicious Git server can make bytes after the pkt-line complete object-format=, causing format_str to advance beyond the pkt-line and the following memchr length calculation to underflow. The resulting heap out-of-bounds walk can crash a client during the first refs-advertisement packet over HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, or the Git protocol. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.6 and 1.9.5.


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