vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3829-1 (CVE-2017-15298): Git vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 14, 2017
Added
Dec 4, 2018
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

It was discovered that Git incorrectly handled layers of tree objects.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
(CVE-2017-15298)

It was discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10.
(CVE-2018-19486)

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-git
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