CVE-2017-15298

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-15298
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-10-14 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-05-02 00:15:00 UTC
DescriptionGit through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Application Git-scm Git All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
GitHub - Katee/git-bomb: A (nearly) uncloneable repo MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0598-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
USN-3829-1: Git vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Exploding Git Repositories – Kate Murphy MISC kate.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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