GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/08/GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34/GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34

Aliases

CVE-2021-35517

Published

2021-08-02T16:55:39Z

Modified

2024-03-08T05:19:25.295269Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Compress

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.

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-07-13T08:15:00Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-130",
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-07-14T18:12:57Z"
}

References

Affected packages

Maven / org.apache.commons:commons-compress

Package

Name: org.apache.commons:commons-compress; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/org.apache.commons/commons-compress

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.21

Affected versions

1.*

1.0

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.4.1

1.5

1.6

1.7

1.8

1.8.1

1.9

1.10

1.11

1.12

1.13

1.14

1.15

1.16

1.16.1

1.17

1.18

1.19

1.20