GHSA-crv7-7245-f45f

Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Compress

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2021-35516
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.commons:commons-compressintroduced 0, fixed 1.21

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database