vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-11771): libcommons-compress-java vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 16, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Oct 30, 2025

Description

When reading a specially crafted ZIP archive, the read method of Apache Commons Compress 1.7 to 1.17's ZipArchiveInputStream can fail to return the correct EOF indication after the end of the stream has been reached. When combined with a java.io.InputStreamReader this can lead to an infinite stream, which can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' zip package.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-libcommons-compress-java
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