suse · CVE-2016-2315

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:39:30 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 17:59:05 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2315 severity moderate: SUSE including 183 source package names (cgit-1.0-1.3, emacs-git-1.8.3.1-6.el7_2.1, …), 227 product×package rows across 41 product lines (SUSE Liberty Linux 7, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5, … (41 product lines)): Fixed 227.

Description:

revision.c in git before 2.7.4 uses an incorrect integer data type, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a (1) long filename or (2) many nested trees, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

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