CVE-2012-4465

Name	CVE-2012-4465
Description	Heap-based buffer overflow in the substr function in parsing.c in cgit 0.9.0.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an empty username in the "Author" field in a commit.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
cgit (PTS)	buster	1.2.1+git2.18.0-1	fixed
	bullseye	1.2.3+git2.25.1-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	1.2.3+git20221219.50.91f2590+git2.39.1-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
cgit	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- cgit <not-affected> (Fixed before the initial upload into the archive)