U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-2542 Detail

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the is_git_directory function in setup.c in Git before 1.7.2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a long gitdir: field in a .git file in a working copy.


Metrics

 
NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to [email protected].

URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3c9d0414ed2db0167e6c828b547be8fc9f88fccc CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/43457 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.2.1.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/22/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/07/22/4 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41891 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0464 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Permissions Required 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618108 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

CPEs loading, please wait.

Denotes Vulnerable Software
Are we missing a CPE here? Please let us know.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-2542
NVD Published Date:
08/11/2010
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.