CVE-2017-14992

Summary

CVECVE-2017-14992
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-11-01 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2017-11-22 17:54:00 UTC
DescriptionLack of content verification in Docker-CE (Also known as Moby) versions 1.12.6-0, 1.10.3, 17.03.0, 17.03.1, 17.03.2, 17.06.0, 17.06.1, 17.06.2, 17.09.0, and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Docker Docker 1.12.6-0 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.03.0 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.03.1 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.03.2 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.06.0 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.06.1 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.06.2 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.09.0 All All All
Application Docker Docker 1.12.6-0 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.03.0 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.03.1 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.03.2 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.06.0 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.06.1 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.06.2 All All All
Application Docker Docker 17.09.0 All All All
Application Docker Docker All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Discovering Docker CVE-2017-14992 – Dynamite fishing for Moby MISC blog.cloudpassage.com Third Party Advisory
tar-split does not read block by block nor validate tar headers · Issue #35075 · moby/moby · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 353052 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for docker : ALAS2NITRO-ENCLAVES-2021-006
  • 353065 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for docker : ALAS2DOCKER-2021-006
  • 900005 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for moby-buildx 0.4.1
  • 903652 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for moby-buildx (4420)
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