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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-36373
When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memor...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error, even for small inputs. This can be used to disrupt builds using Apache Ant. Apache Ant prior to 1.9.16 and 1.10.11 were affected.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
ant
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.10.11-1"}]}]
Debian:13
ant
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.10.11-1"}]}]
Debian:14
ant
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.10.11-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org