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CVE-2021-35517
Published: Jul 13, 2021
Modified: Aug 4, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Apache Software Foundation | Apache Commons Compress | affected 1.1 - < Apache Commons Compress* |
Weaknesses (CWE)
References
[oss-security] 20210713 CVE-2021-35517: Apache Commons Compress 1.1 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability
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[announce] 20210713 CVE-2021-35517: Apache Commons Compress 1.1 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability
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[ant-user] 20210713 CVE-2021-36373: Apache Ant TAR archive denial of service vulnerability
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[announce] 20210713 CVE-2021-36373: Apache Ant TAR archive denial of service vulnerability
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[oss-security] 20210713 CVE-2021-36373: Apache Ant TAR archive denial of service vulnerability
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[poi-dev] 20210923 Re: [VOTE] Apache POI 5.1.0 release (RC1)
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https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
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https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
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https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211022-0001/
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https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
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https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
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