vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2021-36090: apache-commons-compress: excessive memory allocation when reading a specially crafted ZIP archive
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jul 13, 2021 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 13, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025
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
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
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