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CVE-2021-36090

Published: Jul 13, 2021 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36090
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Commons_compress Apache 1.0 (including) 1.21 (excluding)
Red Hat Fuse 7.11 RedHat apache-commons-compress *
Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4 RedHat apache-commons-compress-0:1.21-1.2.el8ev *
Libcommons-compress-java Ubuntu bionic *
Libcommons-compress-java Ubuntu groovy *
Libcommons-compress-java Ubuntu hirsute *
Libcommons-compress-java Ubuntu impish *
Libcommons-compress-java Ubuntu kinetic *
Libcommons-compress-java Ubuntu lunar *
Libcommons-compress-java Ubuntu mantic *
Libcommons-compress-java Ubuntu trusty *
Libcommons-compress-java Ubuntu xenial *

References

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