CVE-2021-35517

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Apache Software FoundationApache Commons Compress1.1 < Apache Commons Compress*affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-130: CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

Workarounds

Commons Compress users should upgrade to 1.21 or later.

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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