vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2019-12402: libcommons-compress-java -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 30, 2019
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The file name encoding algorithm used internally in Apache Commons Compress 1.15 to 1.18 can get into an infinite loop when faced with specially crafted inputs. This can lead to a denial of service attack if an attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by Compress.

Solution

debian-upgrade-libcommons-compress-java
Title
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