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

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.64% (79th percentile)
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NVD
5.5 medium
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Red Hat
3.3 low
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SUSE
6.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-GIT-520633
  • published 14 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 14 Oct 2017
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Introduced: 14 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15298 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link 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.