ubuntu · CVE-2018-8098

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Priority: low Published: 2018-03-14 00:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 12:10:05 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-8098 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libgit2), 20 status rows across 20 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 15, needed 3, ignored 1, released 1.

Description:

Integer overflow in the index.c:read_entry() function while decompressing a compressed prefix length in libgit2 before v0.26.2 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted repository index file.

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