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libcommons-compress-java — security advisory
A specially crafted ZIP archive can be used to cause an infinite loop inside of Apache Commons Compress' extra field parser used by the ZipFile and ZipArchiveInputStream classes in versions 1.11 to 1.15. This can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.
- Products
- libcommons-compress-java
- Affected versions
- 1.10-1, 1.10-2, 1.18-3, 1.19-1, 1.20-1, 1.21-1, 1.23.0-1, 1.24.0-1, 1.25.0-1, 1.27.1-2, 1.9-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1324
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A specially crafted ZIP archive can be used to cause an infinite loop inside of Apache Commons Compress' extra field parser used by the ZipFile and ZipArchiveInputStream classes in versions 1.11 to 1.15. This can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1324
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Complete source record
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