CVE-2021-35517
Published: 13 July 2021
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.
Priority
Status
Package | Release | Status |
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libcommons-compress-java Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
hirsute |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
jammy |
Needs triage
|
|
bionic |
Needs triage
|
|
focal |
Needs triage
|
|
groovy |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
xenial |
Needs triage
|
|
impish |
Ignored
(end of life)
|
|
kinetic |
Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
|
|
mantic |
Needs triage
|
|
lunar |
Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
|
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
---|---|
Base score | 7.5 |
Attack vector | Network |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | None |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity impact | None |
Availability impact | High |
Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-35517
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/13/3
- 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@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r54afdab05e01de970649c2d91a993f68a6b00cd73e6e34e16c832d46@%3Cuser.ant.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r457b2ed564860996b20d938566fe8bd4bfb7c37be8e205448ccb5975@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian