{"id":"MGASA-2017-0440","summary":"Updated git packages fix security vulnerability","details":"Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows\nremote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a\ncrafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk\nconsumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive\nits attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk\n(CVE-2017-15298).\n","modified":"2026-01-31T07:20:04.097394Z","published":"2017-12-01T23:13:21Z","related":["CVE-2017-15298"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0440.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22067"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/E74SITDDPAHRFJZ6NCMSIH3SXTJWBYU3/"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"git","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/git?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.7.6-1.1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0440.json"}},{"package":{"name":"git","ecosystem":"Mageia:6","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/git?arch=source&distro=mageia-6"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.13.6-1.1.mga6"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0440.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}