CVE-2021-36374

Summary

When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, or a derived formats, an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Commonly used derived formats from ZIP archives are for instance JAR files and many office files. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Apache Software FoundationApache Ant1.4 < Apache Ant*affected
Apache Software FoundationApache AntApache Ant 1.9.x <= 1.9.15affected
Apache Software FoundationApache AntApache Ant 1.10.x <= 1.10.10affected

Weaknesses

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

Workarounds

Apache Ant 1.9.x users should upgrade to 1.9.16 or later. Apache Ant 1.10.x users should upgrade to 1.10.11 or later.

ADP Enrichment

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