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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 13, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024

Apache Commons Compress 1.1 to 1.20 denial of service vulnerability

CVE-2021-35517

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.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.apache.commons:commons-compressMaven
< 1.211.21

Affected products

7

Patches

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