CVE-2021-35516

Apache Commons Compress 1.6 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 13, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Jun 27, 2021

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Description

When reading a specially crafted 7Z 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' sevenz package.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

  • CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apache Commons CompressApache Software Foundation
  • 1.6 to before Apache Commons Compress*Affected

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