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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-35517

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 ev...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 libcommons-compress-java

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.21-1"}]}]

Debian:13 libcommons-compress-java

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.21-1"}]}]

Debian:14 libcommons-compress-java

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.21-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org