Medium: apache-commons-compress

Issue Overview:

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. (CVE-2021-36090)

Affected Packages:

apache-commons-compress

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update apache-commons-compress to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    apache-commons-compress-1.5-4.amzn2.0.2.noarch  
    apache-commons-compress-javadoc-1.5-4.amzn2.0.2.noarch  
  
src:  
    apache-commons-compress-1.5-4.amzn2.0.2.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2021-36090

Mitre: CVE-2021-36090