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Fencer Intel
medium 6.5

CVE-2017-14992 json

tar-split memory exhaustion

published 2017-11-01 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-hqwh-8xv9-42hw , GO-2025-3640 , EUVD-2017-6468

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/vbatts/tar-split 0.10.2
  • docker.io Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 18.03.1+dfsg1-2
  • golang-github-vbatts-tar-split Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.10.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14992

  • docker.io Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 18.06.1-0ubuntu1~16.04.2
  • docker.io Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 18.06.1-0ubuntu1~18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14992

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • docker-stable SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES for SAP 15 SP3 +12 more 24.0.9_ce-150000.1.25.1
  • golang-github-docker-libnetwork SLE Module for Containers 12, OpenStack Cloud 6 0.7.0.1+gitr2066_7b2b1feb1de4-10.1
  • docker SLE Module for Containers 12, OpenStack Cloud 6 17.09.1_ce-98.8.1
  • containerd SLE Module for Containers 12, OpenStack Cloud 6 0.2.9+gitr706_06b9cb351610-16.8.1
  • docker-runc SLE Module for Containers 12, OpenStack Cloud 6 1.0.0rc4+gitr3338_3f2f8b84a77f-1.3.1
  • docker-stable SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 24.0.9_ce-1.20.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:03545-1SUSE-SU-2025:03540-1SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1

  • docker-stable openSUSE Tumbleweed 24.0.9_ce-15.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20250424T181457-1.1
  • docker openSUSE Tumbleweed 20.10.6_ce-2.1
  • skopeo openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.3-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15589-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15033-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10722-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11385-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-14992 updated cvss 7.5

docker: Lack of content verification

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 docker, docker-latest
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/vbatts/tar-split
<0.10.2
0.10.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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References

Sources

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