vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-36373: ant -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 14, 2021
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-ant
Title
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