Resource Exhaustion Affecting git-core package, versions <2.26.1-3.25.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-GITCORE-2713447
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed28 Apr 2020

Introduced: 28 Apr 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 git-core to version 2.26.1-3.25.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream git-core package and not the git-core package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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.