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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-10-14T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:50:16.471Z

Reserved: 2017-10-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-15298

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-10-14T22:29:00.200

Modified: 2020-05-02T00:15:11.623

Link: CVE-2017-15298

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-10-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-15298 - Bugzilla