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CVE-2021-35517

Description

When reading a specially crafted TAR 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' tar package.


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
Debian 12 libcommons-compress-java 1.21-1
Debian 11 libcommons-compress-java 1.20-1
Debian 10 libcommons-compress-java 1.18-2+deb10u1
Debian 999 libcommons-compress-java 1.21-1

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