ghsa-hqwh-8xv9-42hw
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-17 00:22
Modified
2025-04-23 02:23
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
tar-split memory exhaustion
Details

Lack of content verification in Docker-CE (Also known as Moby) versions 1.12.6-0, 1.10.3, 17.03.0, 17.03.1, 17.03.2, 17.06.0, 17.06.1, 17.06.2, 17.09.0, and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing.

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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "Go",
            name: "github.com/vbatts/tar-split",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "0.10.2",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2017-14992",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-20",
         "CWE-770",
      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2025-04-23T02:23:36Z",
      nvd_published_at: "2017-11-01T17:29:00Z",
      severity: "MODERATE",
   },
   details: "Lack of content verification in Docker-CE (Also known as Moby) versions 1.12.6-0, 1.10.3, 17.03.0, 17.03.1, 17.03.2, 17.06.0, 17.06.1, 17.06.2, 17.09.0, and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service via a crafted image layer payload, aka gzip bombing.",
   id: "GHSA-hqwh-8xv9-42hw",
   modified: "2025-04-23T02:23:37Z",
   published: "2022-05-17T00:22:00Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14992",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/35075",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/vbatts/tar-split/pull/42",
      },
      {
         type: "PACKAGE",
         url: "https://github.com/vbatts/tar-split",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/vbatts/tar-split/releases/tag/v0.10.2",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20171119174639/https://blog.cloudpassage.com/2017/10/13/discovering-docker-cve-2017-14992",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
   summary: "tar-split memory exhaustion",
}


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