CVE-2017-14992
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.36%Memory exhaustion in github.com/vbatts/tar-split
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14992
Description
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.
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/docker.iofrom 0, < 18.03.1+dfsg1-2
- Debian/golang-github-vbatts-tar-splitfrom 0, < 0.10.2-1
- Go/github.com/vbatts/tar-splitfrom 0, < 0.10.2
- Go/github.com/vbatts/tar-splitfrom 0, < 0.10.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hqwh-8xv9-42hw
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14992
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14992
- PATCHhttps://github.com/vbatts/tar-split
- WEBhttps://github.com/moby/moby/issues/35075
- WEBhttps://github.com/vbatts/tar-split/pull/42
- WEBhttps://github.com/vbatts/tar-split/releases/tag/v0.10.2
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20171119174639/https://blog.cloudpassage.com/2017/10/13/discovering-docker-cve-2017-14992