CVE-2017-15298

Name	CVE-2017-15298
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
git (PTS)	buster	1:2.20.1-2+deb10u3	fixed
	buster (security)	1:2.20.1-2+deb10u8	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	1:2.30.2-1+deb11u2	fixed
	bookworm	1:2.39.2-1.1	fixed
	sid, trixie	1:2.43.0-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
git	source	(unstable)	1:2.16.1-1	unimportant

Notes

https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/
https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=a937b37e766479c8e780b17cce9c4b252fd97e40
No practical security implications