CVE-2017-15298

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.

• CWE-400

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html
• https://github.com/Katee/git-bombExploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html
• https://github.com/Katee/git-bombExploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/Third Party Advisory

Published

Oct 14, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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