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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2017-14992 EUVD-2017-6468GHSA-hqwh-8xv9-42hwGO-2025-3640

tar-split memory exhaustion

Published Nov 1, 2017 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 docker.io 18.03.1+dfsg1-2 —
Debian 14 golang-github-vbatts-tar-split 0.10.2-1 —
Debian 13 docker.io 18.03.1+dfsg1-2 —
Debian 13 golang-github-vbatts-tar-split 0.10.2-1 —
Debian 12 docker.io 18.03.1+dfsg1-2 —
Debian 12 golang-github-vbatts-tar-split 0.10.2-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS docker.io 18.06.1-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS docker.io 18.06.1-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS golang-github-vbatts-tar-split No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
SLES 15 SP6 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
SLES 15 SP5 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
SLES 15 SP4 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
SLES 15 SP3 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 12 SP5 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-1.20.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03540-1
SLES 12 containerd 0.2.9+gitr706_06b9cb351610-16.8.1 SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1
SLES 12 docker 17.09.1_ce-98.8.1 SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1
SLES 12 docker-runc 1.0.0rc4+gitr3338_3f2f8b84a77f-1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1
SLES 12 golang-github-docker-libnetwork 0.7.0.1+gitr2066_7b2b1feb1de4-10.1 SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP3 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
SLE HPC 15 SP3 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 containerd 0.2.9+gitr706_06b9cb351610-16.8.1 SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 docker 17.09.1_ce-98.8.1 SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 docker-runc 1.0.0rc4+gitr3338_3f2f8b84a77f-1.3.1 SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 golang-github-docker-libnetwork 0.7.0.1+gitr2066_7b2b1feb1de4-10.1 SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed docker 20.10.6_ce-2.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:10722-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-15.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15589-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250424T181457-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15033-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed skopeo 1.2.3-1.2 openSUSE-SU-2024:11385-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 docker-stable 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/vbatts/tar-split < 0.10.2 0.10.2 GHSA-hqwh-8xv9-42hw

Advisories 8

References