CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-2315
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- git-scm:git
- opensuse:leap
- opensuse:opensuse
- suse:linux_enterprise_debuginfo
- suse:linux_enterprise_server
- suse:linux_enterprise_software_development_kit
- suse:openstack_cloud
- suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183147.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179121.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/180763.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00060.html