CVE-2017-15298
mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.016 · 76 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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 (6)
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references (14)
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.htmlcnnvd
- https://github.com/Katee/git-bombcnnvd
- https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/cnnvd
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2020.1461/cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2020.2340/cnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.htmlenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/Katee/git-bombenisa_euvd
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