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CVE-2021-35516

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CVE-2021-35516

Published: Jul 13, 2021

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

When reading a specially crafted 7Z 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' sevenz package.

VendorProductVersions

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Commons Compress

affected
1.6 - < Apache Commons Compress*

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

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