Resource Exhaustion Affecting git package, versions <1:2.16.1-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.64% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GIT-520633
  • published14 Oct 2017
  • disclosed14 Oct 2017

Introduced: 14 Oct 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 git to version 1:2.16.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream git package and not the git package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 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.