ubuntu · CVE-2016-1901

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-01-20 16:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:55:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-1901 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (cgit), 10 status rows across 10 suites (artful, bionic, precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 5, DNE 2, not-affected 2, released 1.

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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