vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-36090: Security patch for apache-commons-compress (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jul 13, 2021 | Aug 21, 2024 | May 20, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 13, 2021
Added
Aug 21, 2024
Modified
May 20, 2026
Description
When reading a specially crafted ZIP 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' zip package.
Solutions
amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-apache-commons-compressamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-apache-commons-compress-javadoc
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