Resource Exhaustion Affecting emacs-git package, versions <0:2.13.6-2.56.amzn1
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-EMACSGIT-1710161
- published27 Sept 2021
- disclosed14 Oct 2017
Introduced: 14 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15298 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 emacs-git to version 0:2.13.6-2.56.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2018-948.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs-git package and not the emacs-git package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.