Bug 2521754 - CVE-2026-53587 rust-tokei: libgit2: Denial of Service due to heap out-of-bounds read from malicious Git server [epel-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-53587 rust-tokei: libgit2: Denial of Service due to heap out-of-boun...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: rust-tokei
Version: epel10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Ben Beasley
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Blocks: CVE-2026-53587
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Reported: 2026-08-24 07:59 UTC by Vladimir Vasilev
Modified: 2026-08-24 09:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-08-24 09:58:12 UTC
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-08-24 07:59:52 UTC
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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.

Comment 1 Ben Beasley 2026-08-24 09:58:12 UTC
This package only uses libgit2 indirectly via the Rust git2 crate, and that only as a test dependency, so (1) I can’t see what could possibly be done here, rather than in libgit2 or rust-git2, and (2) the package can’t be affected by any vulnerabilities in a test dependency anyway.


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