MGASA-2017-0440

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    MGASA-2017-0440

    Published: 1 Dec 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-15298

    Summary: Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: 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 (CVE-2017-15298).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0440.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22067, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/E74SITDDPAHRFJZ6NCMSIH3SXTJWBYU3/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: git

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/git?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.6-1.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High
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