vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-49568: Important priority package update for amazon-ssm-agent

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 24, 2023
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 4, 2025

Description

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients.
Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability.
This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.
A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was found in the go library go-git. This issue may allow an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server, which can trigger resource exhaustion in go-git clients.

Solutions

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