UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15298

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15298

    Published: 14 Oct 2017Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-15298
    Aliases:
    USN-3829-1

    Summary:

    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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15298, https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/, https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb, https://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/T/#m58c560c18f93476e23110a0656a8d525170d14a2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3829-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15298

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: git

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/git@1:1.9.1-1ubuntu0.10?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:1.9.1-1ubuntu0.10

    Affected versions

    1:1.8.3.2-1
    1:1.8.4.2-1
    1:1.8.4.3-1
    1:1.8.4.4-1
    1:1.8.5-1
    1:1.8.5.1-1
    1:1.8.5.2-1
    1:1.8.5.2-2
    1:1.8.5.3-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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