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GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34

Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Compress

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2021-35517

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven org.apache.commons:commons-compress < 1.21 1.21

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

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