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CVE-2017-15298

N/A
Published: October 14, 2017 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:07 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsUbuntu LinuxGit

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (4)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/

CVSS

4.3MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400

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