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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-15298

medium Nessus Plugin ID 220575

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - 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. (CVE-2017-15298)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-15298

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 220575

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2017_15298.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 9/5/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15298

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-hg, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-git, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-p4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs-git, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gitk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gitweb, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-p4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-all, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-email, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-email, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gitk, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-instaweb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-hg, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-svn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-all, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-bzr, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs-git-el, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-cvs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-bzr, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:perl-git-svn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-git-svn, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-instaweb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-git-el, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-git, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-daemon, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-cvs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-gnome-keyring, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-svn, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:git-gnome-keyring, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-gui, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gitweb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:git-daemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-git

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15298