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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | Upgrade libcommons-compress-java | Jul 30, 2024 | Jul 13, 2021 |
| Ibm Was | — | Upgrade to minimal fix pack levels as required by interim fixes and then apply latest Interim Fix. | Sep 16, 2021 | Jul 13, 2021 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade developer/build/ant to version 1.10.11-11.4.39.0.1.107.0 on Solaris 11.4 | Nov 17, 2021 | Jul 13, 2021 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 13, 2021 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade apache-commons-compressUpgrade apache-commons-compress-javadoc | Aug 6, 2021 | Jul 13, 2021 |
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