Resource Exhaustion Affecting gitk package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-GITK-1979423
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed12 Oct 2017

Introduced: 12 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15298  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 gitk.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gitk package and not the gitk package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 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.