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Apache Commons Compress 1.1 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability
When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' tar package.
Announced Source revision 1
Original source ↗CVE-2021-35517
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2021-35517
Apache Commons Compress
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "Apache Software Foundation",
"product": "Apache Commons Compress",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "1.1",
"lessThan": "Apache Commons Compress*",
"versionType": "custom"
}
]
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2021-35517
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
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- Event
- #16018 · Revision 1
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- Publisher date