GHSA-q5r4-cfpx-h6fh

Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency in Apache Ant

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2021-36373
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.ant:antintroduced 0, fixed 1.9.16
Maven · org.apache.ant:antintroduced 1.10.0, fixed 1.10.11

References

Sources

SourceLicence
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