ALPINE-CVE-2016-10129 — Vulnetix

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ALPINE-CVE-2016-10129 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

The Git Smart Protocol support in libgit2 before 0.24.6 and 0.25.x before 0.25.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via an empty packet line.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Alpine:v3.7	libgit2	0.24.3-r1, 0.24.3-r0, 0.24.2-r1
Alpine:v3.9	libgit2	0.24.3-r1, 0.24.3-r1, 0.24.3-r0
Alpine:v3.8	libgit2	0.24.3-r0, 0.24.2-r1, 0.24.2-r0
Alpine:v3.11	libgit2	0.24.3-r1, 0.23.2-r0, 0.23.2-r1
Alpine:v3.10	libgit2	0.24.2-r0, 0.23.2-r0, 0.23.2-r1
Alpine:v3.5	libgit2	0.24.3-r1, 0, 0.23.2-r0
Alpine:v3.4	libgit2	0, 0.24.3-r0, 0.24.1-r0
Alpine:v3.6	libgit2	0.24.3-r1, 0, 0.23.2-r0

Timeline

Mar 24, 2017 CVE Published
Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-10129 advisory

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