Gitoxide gix-pack before 0.75.0 contains an uncontrolled memory allocation vulnerability that allows remote attackers to abort the process by supplying a huge pack-header object count. Malicious remotes can serve a 12-byte pack header claiming 0xFFFFFFFF objects, forcing Tree::with_capacity to reserve hundreds of gigabytes and crash clone or fetch operations.
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| Description | Gitoxide gix-pack before 0.75.0 contains an uncontrolled memory allocation vulnerability that allows remote attackers to abort the process by supplying a huge pack-header object count. Malicious remotes can serve a 12-byte pack header claiming 0xFFFFFFFF objects, forcing Tree::with_capacity to reserve hundreds of gigabytes and crash clone or fetch operations. | |
| Title | Gitoxide gix-pack before 0.75.0 Denial of Service via Pack Header Object Count | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
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Updated: 2026-10-12T16:05:33.808Z
Reserved: 2026-10-12T14:19:45.860Z
Link: CVE-2026-109351
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-12T17:17:32.123
Modified: 2026-10-12T17:17:32.123
Link: CVE-2026-109351
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Updated: 2026-10-12T18:30:16Z
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