Git 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.
References
| Link | Resource |
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| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html | |
| https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
| https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/ | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html | |
| https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
| https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/ | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
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History
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| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| References | () http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html - | |
| References | () https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb - Exploit, Third Party Advisory | |
| References | () https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/ - Exploit, Third Party Advisory | |
| References | () https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/ - Third Party Advisory |
Information
Published : 2017-10-14 22:29
Updated : 2024-11-21 03:14
NVD link : CVE-2017-15298
Mitre link : CVE-2017-15298
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2017-15298
JSON object : View
Products Affected
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
git-scm
- git
CWE
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption