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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:53:17 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>, cgit@...mli.net,
meyering@...hat.com
Subject: Re: cgit: heap buffer overflow
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On 09/30/2012 01:21 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hey oss-sec,
>
> The original author and maintainer of cgit, Lars Hjemli, has been
> MIA for the last several months, and nobody I've talked to seems to
> know what's happened. Because I've previously been involved with
> some cgit things, I'm maintaining a tree of my own to which folks
> on the cgit mailing list are now sending patches. It'd be a bit
> presumptuous to call myself the new maintainer, but I am trying to
> keep the project alive and healthy until Lars returns from wherever
> he is.
>
> Jim Meyering from Redhat has written to the cgit mailing list with
> a detailed analysis and a two line commit fixing a heap buffer
> overflow. At the minimum, it's a denial of service, and in the
> worst case, it might lead to to a remote shell. If anyone has any
> tricks on how to exploit it successfully, I'd be interested to hear
> them.
>
> You can read his analysis and look at the commit here [1] and a
> Redhat bug report here [2].
>
> If this oss-sec finds it concerning enough, I can tag a
> non-Lars-approved release and post links to new tarballs for
> folks. But there's a chance that exploitation isn't feasible, as
> Jim has written in his report, in which case I'd like to hold off
> on making any non-Lars-approved releases for a bit.
>
> Thanks, Jason
>
> [1]
> http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=7757d1b046ecb67b830151d20715c658867df1ec
>
>
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820733
>
Please use CVE-2012-4465 for this issue. At a minimum it can lead to a
DoS.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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