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CVE-2021-35517

UNKNOWN
Published 2021-07-13T07:15:22
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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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

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Affected Products

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Commons Compress

Affected Versions:

1.1

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Compress

GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34

Advisory Details

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 Packages

Maven org.apache.commons:commons-compress
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <1.21

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-35517
WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
WEB https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211022-0001
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfba19167efc785ad3561e7ef29f340d65ac8f0d897aed00e0731e742@%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd4332baaf6debd03d60deb7ec93bee49e5fdbe958cb6800dff7fb00e@%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rba65ed5ddb0586f5b12598f55ec7db3633e7b7fede60466367fbf86a@%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb7adf3e55359819e77230b4586521e5c6874ce5ed93384bdc14d6aee@%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb6e1fa80d34e5ada45f72655d84bfd90db0ca44ef19236a49198c88c@%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb064d705fdfa44b5dae4c366b369ef6597951083196321773b983e71@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/racd0c0381c8404f298b226cd9db2eaae965b14c9c568224aa3f437ae@%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra393ffdc7c90a4a37ea023946f390285693795013a642d80fba20203@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f54c0caa462267e0cc68b49f141e91432b36b23348d18c65bd0d040@%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r67ef3c07fe3b8c1b02d48012149d280ad6da8e4cec253b527520fb2b@%3Cdev.poi.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r605d906b710b95f1bbe0036a53ac6968f667f2c249b6fbabada9a940%40%3Cuser.commons.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54afdab05e01de970649c2d91a993f68a6b00cd73e6e34e16c832d46@%3Cuser.ant.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r457b2ed564860996b20d938566fe8bd4bfb7c37be8e205448ccb5975@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r31f75743ac173b0a606f8ea6ea53f351f386c44e7bcf78ae04007c29@%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
WEB https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html
WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/3
WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/5

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: August 2, 2021, Modified: February 8, 2022

References

https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/security-reports.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r605d906b710b95f1bbe0036a53ac6968f667f2c249b6fbabada9a940%40%3Cuser.commons.apache.org%3E
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/3
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra393ffdc7c90a4a37ea023946f390285693795013a642d80fba20203%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54afdab05e01de970649c2d91a993f68a6b00cd73e6e34e16c832d46%40%3Cuser.ant.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r457b2ed564860996b20d938566fe8bd4bfb7c37be8e205448ccb5975%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/5
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb064d705fdfa44b5dae4c366b369ef6597951083196321773b983e71%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd4332baaf6debd03d60deb7ec93bee49e5fdbe958cb6800dff7fb00e%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb7adf3e55359819e77230b4586521e5c6874ce5ed93384bdc14d6aee%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfba19167efc785ad3561e7ef29f340d65ac8f0d897aed00e0731e742%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rba65ed5ddb0586f5b12598f55ec7db3633e7b7fede60466367fbf86a%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f54c0caa462267e0cc68b49f141e91432b36b23348d18c65bd0d040%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/racd0c0381c8404f298b226cd9db2eaae965b14c9c568224aa3f437ae%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb6e1fa80d34e5ada45f72655d84bfd90db0ca44ef19236a49198c88c%40%3Cnotifications.skywalking.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r31f75743ac173b0a606f8ea6ea53f351f386c44e7bcf78ae04007c29%40%3Cissues.flink.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r67ef3c07fe3b8c1b02d48012149d280ad6da8e4cec253b527520fb2b%40%3Cdev.poi.apache.org%3E
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211022-0001/
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
Published: 2021-07-13T07:15:22
Last Modified: 2024-08-04T00:40:46.713Z
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