CVE-2017-15298 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-15298?

CVE-2017-15298 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 14 Oct 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-15298?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Git-Scm Git.

How do I fix CVE-2017-15298?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-15298 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-15298 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15298, GHSA-h4pp-whcf-mhp8, MGASA-2017-0440, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15298.