Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 14, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-15298
CVE-2017-15298
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.
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Affected products
10cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- osv-coords4 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/git&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/git&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/git&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/git&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Development%20Tools%2015%20SP1
< 2.26.1-lp151.4.9.1+ 3 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.26.1-lp151.4.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.33.0-1.3
- (no CPE)range: < 2.26.1-3.25.2
- (no CPE)range: < 2.26.1-3.25.2
Patches
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References
3- kate.io/blog/git-bomb/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.htmlnvd
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