GHSA-xqfj-vm6h-2x34HighCVSS 7.5

Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Compress

Published
August 2, 2021
Last Modified
January 27, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • maven/org.apache.commons:commons-compress:< 1.21

🔗 References (24)