IBM WebSphere Application Server: CVE-2021-35517: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apache Commons Compress affect WebSphere Application Server Liberty (CVE-2021-33517, CVE-2021-36090)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
07/13/2021
09/20/2021
09/16/2021
09/16/2021
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- ibm-was-install-8-5-ph39418-liberty
- ibm-was-upgrade-8-5-21-0-0-10-liberty
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