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Oracle WebLogic: CVE-2021-36090 : Critical Patch Update

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Oracle WebLogic: CVE-2021-36090 : Critical Patch Update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/13/2021
Created
07/19/2023
Added
07/19/2023
Modified
07/19/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-weblogic-apr-2023-cpu-12_2_1_4_0
  • oracle-weblogic-apr-2023-cpu-14_1_1_0_0

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