debian · CVE-2016-1901

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:58:41 GMT

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CVE-2016-1901 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (cgit), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

Integer overflow in the authenticate_post function in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large value in the Content-Length HTTP header, which triggers a buffer overflow.

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