VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-14992

medium
Published 2017-11-01 · Modified 2025-04-24
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 18.03.1+dfsg1-2
sid Fixed 18.03.1+dfsg1-2
forky Fixed 18.03.1+dfsg1-2
bullseye Fixed 18.03.1+dfsg1-2
bookworm Fixed 18.03.1+dfsg1-2

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
golang Gogithub.com/vbatts/tar-split<0.10.20.10.2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
docker dockerdocker{"endIncluding":"1.10.3"}
docker dockerdocker1.12.6-0
docker dockerdocker17.03.0
docker dockerdocker17.03.1
docker dockerdocker17.03.2
docker dockerdocker17.06.0
docker dockerdocker17.06.1
docker dockerdocker17.06.2
docker dockerdocker17.09.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.