Git Bomb Vulnerability: Denial of Service and Disk Consumption

CVE-2017-15298 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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