Resource Exhaustion Affecting git package, versions <1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.6
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-GIT-340842
- published 14 Oct 2017
- disclosed 14 Oct 2017
Introduced: 14 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-15298 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 git to version 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.6 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 Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 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.